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Thanks Gonk and Outlaws

DmC

I have tried to get the consumer advocate reporter at the newspaper I work at to write about this since thousands of people who own HDTV sets will basically be ripped off if this standard ever comes to pass. Not only that, but it is false and misleading advertising to say these sets are HD when they may not be able to get the true HD resolution. All the stores selling these sets are just pushing the product without letting the consumer know what is possible in the future. I know I would be ticked if i spent $2-$4000 on a supposedly "HD ready" tv only to find out i cannot get that resolution. The reporter and our TV writer claims it is "too" complicated for our readers to understand. Well, that's our job I told them, to make the story easy to understand and get the information out there.

Matthew,
Off topic, but from one Mac user to another, you might find this interesting:
http://www.m-audio.com/products/consumer/sonicaSite/alt_content/about.html
(Works with PCs also). I just got mine so I haven't evaluated the pseudo surround quality or how it sounds through the 950, but it's supposed to support DTS, DD, and DPL. I got it mainly for digital recording onto my minidisc player.

Yeah, that little job looks pretty cool. I've been thinking about it... :-) But if the 950 is incapable of processing a 96kHz signal, as I've read recently in another thread, that does reduce the usefulness of it a little bit, for stereo. It will still be great to have 5.1 support for DVDs, though. Now if I can only find a 30' Toslink cable... :-)

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Matthew J. Hill
matt@idsi.net

I thought the outcome of that thread was that the 950 can handle 96kHz in stereo, but will have to downconvert to 4kKHz if you want to do surround processing (PLII or NEO6).

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