Well the responses to this post are encouraging.... this sounds like it may be more possible than I was actually expecting, glad I asked you guys.

Hugo: I am glad this was already on the wishlist. I had expected the F/R TA wouldn't be possible from the little I know about the inner workings of the EMPEG (i.e., there is no notion of F/R until the two channel stream gets processed by the Phillips DSP, right?).

Can you give us any idea if this is somewhere on SonicBLUE's software development map? I am only asking because I can imagine there are all sorts of things that are on the wishlist that may never be implemented by SonicBLUE for various reasons.