Hi Jerry

Welcome back, hope you're well and good to see you posting again after what feels like a long absence smile

It's worth bearing in mind that Dolby and DTS will charge a fairly hefty licence fee for EACH of the Codecs that are being discussed above.

And in Meridian's case, that hefty fee would need to be divided across the limited number of HD621's that they sell (or that would be Upgraded)... perhaps resulting in a fee of say $500 to $750 per device... how many existing Hikers would be happy to pay that do you think?? (rhetorical question..)

Oppo have obviously paid the licence fees, which is why they can decode, but manufacturers like Roku choose to reduce the cost of their devices by abdicating responsibility for decoding to the device downstream from their box.

IMHO, the problem lies with the Player manufacturers not being willing to pay the licence fees and simply passing the buck onto Meridian et al.

My purpose in posting the chart above was not just to show the difference in Streaming Bitrates, but also to show that there are different quality Netflix / Vudu Players out there... e.g. it should now be more obvious that Oppo > Roku, even as just a Netflix player!!

Cheers

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