It would be rather nice in 2013 if Meridian's flagship processors could play bitstream HD audio from KScape's BD players ... which don't decode to PCM if I remember correctly.

If Kscape becomes a BD/downloading play (no DVD's in the future if they lose the appeal and currently only 1 studio participating) it remains to be seen if they can sell enough HW/rent enough films to be profitable.

Due to their DVD lawsuit history, they probably can't move upscale and sell their tech to the Hollywood director set, which is kind of a shame as their IP seems top notch. (There are several startups that are aiming for super-high end 4K download only solutions.)

Companies can spend a lot of $/� on lawyers, lawsuits, engineering time on appeasing the studios and end up not making much money on non-core products.

IMHO, M-Audio is spending its scarce engineering resources on stuff they have a history on (2 channel audio like 818/808 and multichannel 861v8) and DSP speakers. Keep improving the audio quality (like the latest 818 upgrade?) (also maybe by keeping the HDMI video signal far away from the audio processors) and the sales will keep coming.

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