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Zest, the optical and coax outputs will work for 5.1 or 7.1 for DVDs. Very simple, one wire for all channels. If you want to listen to multichannel music, such as an SACD or DVD-Audio, then you must use the analog. Unless something has changed over the last year or so, that's the way it is.