Actually, the word is the DV60 is actually inferior to the DV50s, as it's power supply, etc. was cheapened.
Esoteric DV60
As I understand it, 5.1 audio is available only from the five analog RCA outputs, is that true? I assume the reason the DV60s have depreciated so heavily is because they offer neither Blu-ray nor lossless codecs, and not because they're failure prone.