I think Meridians advantage is in their equipments sound quality.
Software bugs and the slow corrections in so expensive equipment would be absolutely out of the question for a japanese company. For my personal use I like the digitals out very much. In fact that's the reason why I own a Meridan processor. And if there will be a 7.1 analogue or two inputs I will buy a new processor directly.
A G62 would be my wish for the future.

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Harry