I noticed yesterday that I lost the left channel analog out on my Sony BluRay Player. I moved the outputs to anothe rinput on the AVR and still got the same result. When I switched to bitstream, the left channel came back so I know its not the AVR. I used the analog outs to play CD. I was thinking of replacing this unit because of this issue but it makes no sense to do this. I'm simply moving the DtoA conversion to the AVR instead of using the player's DAC. I can live with that. It frees up an input on the AVR but now, I have to reprogram the Harmony remote. I can live with this.