I think it will be a long, long time until anything more complex than DD is streaming through cable, satellite and terrestrial. If the high bitrate codecs become commonplace then perhaps other devices will emerge to "step into the chasm" and provide the bridge between HD codecs and HD621.

Or Meridian can just upgrade their own firmware on their processors, right? I assume they hold licenses for the now standard HD codecs ...

Sometimes things like this drive me crazy and then I "remember" that I have many more DVDs (DD and DTS) than BD ... and cable tv is only DD ... and my Sonos is 2 channel PCM :-) (and Sonos sound is why I upgraded to Meridian - for my music collection primarily).




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