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Originally Posted by hanser

First, normally I do not have to change audio at all since it is already in English.

English - yes. But which format of English? DD 5.1 Lossy? Dolby TrueHD? DTS Lossy? DTS-HD MA?

Originally Posted by hanser

Second If I want to change it, I can push the audio button, I do not have to use the pop up menu. It is faster and less distracting.

I like the ability to press the audio button to find things like commentary tracks, but, again, how do you know which format you've selected? Many discs have three or four different "English" tracks and pressing the audio button doesn't show you a format, but rather a language. "English 1", "English 2", "English 3" and "English 4" don't tell me anything about format.

Originally Posted by hanser

I also do not find the pop up menu cheesy, rather the opposite. it is something that DVD does not offer, so I think it is rather cool looking. But this is personal preference I guess.

I like the pop-up menu myself. But I am looking at it from my guests perspective. It is perfectly reasonable to go to a menu and set things up BEFORE the movie starts, but once the movie starts, they don't want things popping up on the screen over the movie...even if it is just the studio logos. Can you imagine going to the movie theater and the New Line logo animation starts up with the opening music playing and some dude is in the back popping up a menu to set the audio from stereo to surround sound? It just feels a little hokey to me. And guests are used to menus before the movie starts.

If I set things up in a main menu, guests think, "Oh, well, he's just setting things up. I appreciate that he's looking out for our best interests." If I start the movie and bring up all kinds of menus blocking opening credits and movie-type stuff, guests think, "What a geek. He's gotta have everything perfect and I just wanna watch the darn movie. Get that crap off of the screen." Like I said, it's perfectly acceptable before the movie starts, but once the movie starts, all bets are off...It's movie time.