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Hi everybody! Sorry i haven't been around much... been slammed!

For the record:

Dolby E 5.1+2 is 20 bit. Dolby E 5.1 only is 16 bit.

Meaning, if you take advantage of the ability to include your LtRt in the Dolby E stream, you'll need 20 bits. If you only need the 5.1, no LtRt, then 16 bit is fine. Of course, this must be reflected in the set up menus on the encoder.

20 bit Dolby is the format I've generally seen as being a network deliverable. in fact, I've never generated a 16 bit Dolby Dolby stream.

I can't comment on whether the DV deck is capable of inserting and maintaining the data integrity of the Dolby E data stream. I can tell you that Dolby E is fairly robust, and as long as the deck is doing no SRC, leveling, or other resampling, you can probably slam it on there if it is the correct bit rate and sample rate for the deck. Sometimes there are menus in the deck that need to be jangled with to turn off any options that cause resamnpling issues.

FWIW...