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Cheers lads. Turns out it was ok. The telly couldn't do 1280x1024 so blanked screened me.
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Box now lives under the stairs controlled by IR blaster. Superb!

Glad to hear it worked out. The 1024 vertical is a known issue - some serious ranting on this earlier in this thread. I thought Intel had fixed this in bios/uefi long time ago - but I could never tell, as both my monitor and TV can handle 1024 vertical.

Hoping this NuC works out great for you - it sure has for most of us

So still no DTS-MA pass through on Windows 7 or 8.1?
This is the only thing holding me back.
can someone please confirm or suggest alternative box?

Still no real news on this - sorry. That alternative box would have to be non-Bay Trail. With proper setup and EMI drivers, DTS-HD and DD+ should work fine on Hawell units.

AFAIK, PAP (Protected Audio Path) is stll broken with BayTrail and win8.1. You can get around it if you have an external soundcard with multichannel analog outputs - this issue only affects passthrough bitstreaming that requires PAP. In win8.1 that would be either per-application requirement (like Netflix Metro app), or DTS-HD/MA - for which I believe it is an OS natively requirement.

Could anyone with win8.1 do a proper uninstall of the intel GFX drivers, and try out latest GFX drivers? https://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_...ldID=23714
Please check Netflix Metro DD+ operation (House of Cards is one of many with DD+ soundtrack) - and check if DTS-HD / DTS-MA is available in device capabilites -both in windows settings and XBMC audio output settings. And of course - check if it actually works.

My AVR is still at the shops, my temp replacement only handles optical and coaxial toslink - which is does not have the bandwith for DD+, and most certainly not HD audio. My TV is DD+ capable, but it only has 2 speakers and no multichannel passthrough - thus while video and audio is fluid with DD+ soudtrack, I can't really know whats actually going on.