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I received my Bay Trail NUC this evening and quickly set it up. Hopefully this can reassure people of it's capabilities. Click the links for evidence.

DTS-HD and TrueHD passthrough works
Oceanic Life skipped 1 frame on the initial bootup and then played through the entire folder without any skipped or dropped frames.

This was on a hastily setup unit running version 0021 of the bios and openelec nightly "OpenELEC-Generic.x86_64-devel-20140204145610-r17626-g97447e4"

I was able to boot off USB 3.0 stick using instructions from this thread. If the unit boots to a blank screen, keep pressing F2 to get into setup. Another snag I ran into was I was unable to flash the bios from within Visual Bios. Instead I had to press F7 repeatedly at startup before the BIOS screen to get into an old school text based BIOS flash utility which allowed me to update via USB. I am using a Crucial 2GB CT25664BF1339 stick with 512MB allocated for Video in the BIOS. I did remove the wi-fi card, as I only use wired ethernet and find the dual NIC's more trouble than it's worth. I didn't mess with the IR receiver, as I use FLIRC and think that is a superior solution.

I hope than clarifies some questions and I plan to play with it some more this weekend as time allows.

Are you able to measure power consumption?