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I am still curious on this PCM vs passthrough debate and why everyone thinks they "need" passthrough so their AVR blinky lights look good. From my reading there literally is no difference so why is everyone always passthrough paasthrough passthrough? Just curious what I don't know

I can only speak for myself, but the only reason left for me to use passthru....since apparently these new Kodi builds can decode DTS HD & True HD to multi-channel PCM...is because I have a collection of old DTS 5.1 CD's and so far thru my testing Kodi only decodes them to 2-channel PCM instead of 5.1.

I'm going to take a wild guess and say my situation ranks low, lower and lowest on the priority list...and understandably so, I get it.

So I stick with 15.2 EGL, it works for me. Very solid & does what I ask of it. Reliable passthru, solid frame rate switching, Intel HW HEVC decoding.

Think DTS CDs work by effectively fooling various bits in the chain that they are CDs and DTS respectively. If you ripped them to a DTS stream in an MKV (or possibly MKA?) wrapper I suspect they'd work fine, as there would be no 'fooling' going on, though I may be wrong.