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In Sony's defence, the time this feature was available (from v2.00 till 2.01) was a mere fortnight and moreover it wasn't documented by Sony so this particular feature can hardly qualify as a bait-and-switch case.
Concerning your SACDs, the MoFi ones as well as all SHM-SACD are stereo only, and PS3 never had a real issue with stereo output. The special benefit of v2.00 was that it enabled *multichannel* output via optical. That's useful for users who own an AV receiver without HDMI input because there's no analog multichannel out. There is an analog stereo output that's very capable and arguably gives better quality than a transcoding to basic DTS.
The DSD-to-DTS transcoding and OtherOS support are the only features I'm aware of Sony ever removed in the four-plus years that PS3 has been on the market. I would not call that regularly recurring behaviour.
Having said that, the introduction and sudden removal of this feature was not very elegant. If the DTS license was the main issue the decent thing would have been to switch to Dolby Digital instead. If the SACD license rules are the key concern, Sony in my view is applying its own rules too strictly.
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In Sony's defence, the time this feature was available (from v2.00 till 2.01) was a mere fortnight and moreover it wasn't documented by Sony so this particular feature can hardly qualify as a bait-and-switch case.
Concerning your SACDs, the MoFi ones as well as all SHM-SACD are stereo only, and PS3 never had a real issue with stereo output. The special benefit of v2.00 was that it enabled *multichannel* output via optical. That's useful for users who own an AV receiver without HDMI input because there's no analog multichannel out. There is an analog stereo output that's very capable and arguably gives better quality than a transcoding to basic DTS.
The DSD-to-DTS transcoding and OtherOS support are the only features I'm aware of Sony ever removed in the four-plus years that PS3 has been on the market. I would not call that regularly recurring behaviour.
Having said that, the introduction and sudden removal of this feature was not very elegant. If the DTS license was the main issue the decent thing would have been to switch to Dolby Digital instead. If the SACD license rules are the key concern, Sony in my view is applying its own rules too strictly.