I agree. I've said before (seemingly to the annoyance of a couple of people who didn't seem to want to acknowledge that discs are now routinely released with native 7.1 soundtracks) that lack of 7.1 input support is the major disappointment to me.

It seems likely to me that it's a technical limitation that couldn't be overcome, or not at an acceptable cost anyway. I guess my old vanilla G61 will have to run on a while longer.

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