Looks like a well-reviewed and well-liked player without a lot of the freeze problems that the other machines have had, but it won't work for my purposes because it doesn't have *analog* 5.1 audio outputs on the back, as does the BDP-S1 and BDP-S500, for example. Remember, I don't have a processor, so digital 5.1 sound outupt does nothing for me.

...Is the BDP-S550 from the same generation and of the same quality? Because I note that it *does* have multichannel analog audio outputs.