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Ability to get PCM from DTS-MA and TrueHD is great, but we will lose ATMOS and whatever the DTS equivalent coming out is. For these, we'll just get 8-channel PCM w/o the height speakers I think.

I really don't think most people will care about the the "loss" of ATMOS/DTS:X, to be honest. If you've got an amp and the speakers to do justice to these object-based sound formats, you shouldn't be using a $35 playback device in the first place.

Precisely. And a Chromebox isn't 'that' much more - and supports HD Audio bitstreamed (which means the Atmos stuff works I believe). (Though the Chromebox doesn't do 3D MVC - the little $35 Pi 2 really is in a class of its own in that regard!)