Hi John,

Yes bought my 598 for sound performance, but function that are perported to be avaliable and are not seem to me to be a mistake, these function are nothing special just ff/fr and dont forget repeat.

BTW these function are only non working on DVDA not CD, so its not so bad but a new format which meridain is highly involved in should try harder to get people intrested in it.

Also when using the ff/fr the sound mutes/unmutes BUT the pees of playback is not increased.Please try it by whating the time code or singing along to verify.

Again repeat is also not working which would be handy to burn in cable etc. while having a DVDA playing.

My realy piont is that I would of liked to have been informed about the status of ff/fr and repeat I still would of bought but I wouldnt of thought my machine was broke and would not be complaining now!

Skooby