" Will the Oppo 980 put out 5.1 channels of 48kHz decoded DD/DTS audio when set to 480i/576i? Is the restriction on sampling rate or on the number of channels as well?"

HDMI can carry 6 channels at 48kHz with 480i/p. The Oppo will output up to 88.2kHz at 6 channels (DSD->PCM) over 480i/p. If you try to play back a 6 channel 96kHz DVD-A over HDM at 480i/p it downsamples it to 6 channels of 48kHz.

Same restrictions on what it feeds its DACs.

Having discrete resolution codes for the Oppos would help. What would be really nice is if Oppo would allow one to set what the default output resolution is and what resolution to output for DVD-A/SACD playback.

Shawn

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