Originally posted by Adrian L:
I assume the internal digital/audio decoders in the Samsung to be the cheaper run of the mill stuff. It will be really great in a year or so when there are higher end pre-amp units (like Outlaws) to decode and show the full potential of the new audio formats.
This is an excellent point, Adrian. Sure, the player can decode and output multichannel analog, but there are so many other DSP-related capabilities that are lacking from a player (bass management and matrix processing modes like PLIIx being obvious examples) that will become readily available once we move to a digital interface. Even an HDMI v1.1 interface, with the player providing a raw multichannel PCM signal, would make all of that possible, but I have a hard time finding fault in companies like Outlaw waiting for HDMI v1.3 considering how poorly managed the evolution of HDMI has been.
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