Beyond being able to then Upsample in the Meridian Processor, what advantage does DD/DTS in the HD621 offer??........I understand it would be a handy feature, but how much more??
While Meridian still sold DVD players, I would agree that it only made sense with STBs; and you could put together a convincing case their bit rates are so low, it wouldn't be worth it. But with no more Meridian video spinners, new customers are *forced* to decode lossy DD/DTS in their (presumably Blu-Ray) players.
Now, according to Meridian, it does lossy DD/DTS decoding better than the competition. So, looking at this with sound quality as the prime objective, I see three possibilities:
- There is no Meridian DD/DTS-decoding special sauce vs. good non-Meridian players. Not that Meridian would ever admit this. In which case, we should decode DVD soundtracks in the DVD/BD player. Few STBs that do this though.
- Decoding in a Meridian DVD player and up-sampling in a Meridian processor was never really worth it at typical lossy DD/DTS rates. Is this credible?
- There is special Meridian sauce when it comes to decoding DD/DTS. In which case, all lossy DD/DTS would benefit from decoding in an HD621.
Edit: Mind you, this would all be moot if Meridian had bothered to re-architect the 861v6 properly and add the ability to decode and up-sample.
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