If you are running the digital out from your DVD player to the reciever, the signal isn't being decoded in the DVD player. So you are correct in thinking that those DACs don't matter for that application. This is why I am a proponent of getting a high quality reciever or processor, and then using digital connections whenever possible. Why pay for DACs over and over again?

[black]-"The further we go and older we grow, the more we know, the less we show."[/black]