gonk and bestbang4thebuck,

Great replies! These ideas are very usable workarounds. I will certainly implement these ideas on my remote.

However, the solutions are still work-arounds to a deficiency in the Model 950. Even with your ideas implemented on my remote, the surfing situation is still: 1) surf channels with analog audio input mode, 2) wonder if a certain channel has a digital audio input, press remote button to switch to digital audio, and 3) switch back if no digital input. Still manually oriented.

I wonder if Outlaw support can address whether this feature can be implemented in firmware? It seems that the 950 is already smart enough to detect and select Dolby Digital ES and if none, drop back to Dolby Digital.

Thanks, Dan Becker