Actually a middle class exists in China. Except, they are drunk with their new found wealth. They are very patriotic and very government friendly. Why rock the boat and risk losing all that wealth and societal status when you can continue to be a business man or engineer or a lawyer and make lots of money.

With the PS3, in order to get the lossless sound, you need a receiver that can process 5.1/7.1 PCM audio through HDMI. Do you have one of those? Also, you need to set the audio output on the PS3 to Linear PCM instead of bitstream. I got a huge leap in quality on movies that have lossless sound with my setup.