jimfisheye
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I decent way forward would be to formally acknowledge the deprecation of 5.1(side) by making 7.x playback default to treating both 5.1 formats as 5.1(rear). Make a preference setting or playback option to treat 5.1 as 5.1(side) for the 1 or 3 actual genuine 5.1(side) recordings out in the wild. Make the user reach for the controls for a rare 5.1(side) recording. Ditto for stand along hardware players. The industry seems to have gone with the popular option I mentioned above for now.