JVC XV-F80BK Progressive Scan 7-Disc DVD Player
Some poeple are clueless
Okay, so I am really bothered by some of these reviews.  Obviously your ignorance should not make a product inferior.  Many people do not understand what multi-channel out is. This player is special because it plays DVD audio discs, and not many players do. DVD audio is a 6-channel audio format similar to DTS but it is NOT compressed and it is higher quality.  The quality of DVD audio will blow you away. In order to accomplish this, any DVD audio capable player will have an internal decoder. So yes, this player DOES have OPTICAL and DIGITAL COAX, which you would use for a home theater type setting. The multi-channel output is used when you are using the players internal decoder. And yes, you could use this for DTS decoding if you so desired, but if you use optical/digital coax you are using your reciever's internal decoder instead. The picture quality and sound on this unit are superb. The gold-plated outputs on the back are a nice touch too.  The multi-channel outputs should be hooked up with analog RCA cables, yes, standard audio cables.  But you only need to do that if you plan on using this for DVD-audio. Its sad when people berate something they don't understand.