One option: make both connections, and then assign the digital input to an unused analog input. For a player that is both your CD transport and your DVD player, I'd connect the digital and assign that to the DVD, then connect the analog to the CD and leave the CD input on analog. The 1050 doesn't have a lot of digital inputs, but they are addressable to any input, which can really help. This can also be a handy way of having separate decoding modes for different material -- leave the DVD input set on surround and set some other input (AUX, for example) set to stereo with the same digital input assigned to both DVD and AUX.

Are you sure you'll need the analog connection for MP3? My DVD player (Panasonic RA60) supports MP3 and I've played MP3's on it through my 950 using a digital connection even though the 950's decoder doesn't handle MP3.

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