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Originally posted by Reznor007
My own view on this is that is there were such huge differences in the digital signal, the decoder wouldn't be able to tell what was DTS/DD and what was PCM or anything else.

Which is the conflicting idea behind this whole debate. If a digital signal is just a string of bits, to be error corrected using ome sort of OSI model; then what difference does it make? If there's a standard (say, DTS) then the player Tx DTS bitstream to the reciever... 1001010011001010010010010
is 1001010011001010010010010 no matter how it gets to the reciever. If, for some reason, the reciever Rx 1001010011101010010010010, it will be error corrected, I assume, on some level.

So, if 1001010011001010010010010 gets to the receiver via digital coax or if 1001010011001010010010010 gets to the reciever via an optical conx - what difference does it make?

And, if you swing by Boston on your way to the demonstration, pick me up!! I'd love to be disproven.