wrote:
the think i hate most is having to scale down to 16 bits from 24.
kills me. i'd be happy at 48khz/24bit, but that's not a consumer
format.

Both DVD-Video and DVD-Audio support 48khz/24bit:

http://www.disctronics.co.uk/technol...daud_audio.htm

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