Good question Xenon. There is a stand alone unit running the Dirac Live processing so someone thinks there is a market. The big question in my mind is what are the costs associated with adding top level room correction to a pre/pro or AVR?

Someone with more knowledge than myself would have to chime in on this but it seems reasonable to me that if a person bought one of the new OPPO (or any other top level brand) 4k players and had outboard room correction the 4K player could become the media hub and volume control eliminating the need for a new 4K pre/pro all together. Some sort of pre/pro, AVR would still be necessary for multi zone capability and quite possibly Atmos/DTS-X though the new 4K players do include the capability so the Atmos/DTS-X point could well be moot.