What I think most irritates me about the HDMI mess is the fact that I can see some great benefits to HDMI, if all the problems could be removed from the equation. It would simplify hooking up a system and it would allow any digital format's audio and video data to stay in the digital domain as long as possible (something that is otherwise difficult or even impossible for DVD-A, SACD, and the new HD audio formats). The mess that we have now has been ongoing for a number of years now, though. For example, one of the major reasons that Outlaw went with DVI switching on the Model 1070 and Model 990 was the uncertainty and confusion surrounding HDMI versions, and they made those decisions back around 2004 (possibly even before that). It's gotten better since then, but not as much as you'd hope it would.