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There is a RME solution.
There is also an 8 channel solution form DAL.
The Lynx solution is a combination of the Lynx2 or L22 soundcards and the LS-AES expansion board.
I think if those MHR inputs will also accept six channels of PCM (over 3 SPDIF) then you could use PowerDVD's DD and DTS decoders for instance, to get upsampled DVDs - though the cost of the Lynx solution works out at either �1100 or �1300 just for sound cards, you have to factor in the cost of the rest of the PC as well, so you start getting to G98 territory. But the G98 won't do scaling to every resolution, is limited by HDCP on its digital interface, can't stream movies off HD or a remote server etc.
If you could find a way to take a SPDIF input of DD or DTS and decode that to 6xPCM, then upsampling of Laserdiscs and HDTV/D-Theatre becomes possible.

Mark