Hi Richard,

Gianni coved the DD/DTS part ... which as the 861 can already decoded is really about a potential SQ increase but is lossy anyway so it likely to be marginal.
It was more the support for the new codecs which unless the source device can decode them the to PCM we can utilise the streams with Meridian equipment.

Dolby Digital Plus (DD+) also known as Enhanced AC-3DD+ that is popular on streaming video boxes and many of those boxes don't support vanila DD ... which is a problem for Meridian.

And even more so with Atmos, I have Sky-Q the best SQ from it is with Atmos enabled however I can't use so have to fall back to plain old DD, which hurts.

As for costs, no idea, but the UHD722 is not inexpensive ... I've always felt it (and it's predecessor the HD621) have missed some significant use cases.

Regards,
Carl

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