Wow!
Thanks for the most excellent responses guys. So, all the very informative, tecnical info aside, the ES and EX modes have been there the whole time, just didn't see 'em until I turned up the speakers in the back. I had no idea. Moreover, I always assumed that the source material needed to be encoded that way to get it, regardless of speaker configuration. Kind makes me wish that I'd added the two rear speakers while I still had my 950 so I could have tinkered with Cirrus Extra Surround mode. It'd have to have been pretty darn good to compete with PLIIx.

One more question and please forgive me if I missed something in Sanjay and Gonk's responses: What does a DVD that says that it's encoded in DD EX give me that one that's only DD 5.1 doesn't? Sounds like I could select DD EX as long as I have at least a 6.1 setup even if the DVD is only marked DD 5.1.

Again, thanks for all the help guys.


later,
simp