There's at least one Profile 2.0 player on the horizon (the BD50) that will offer onboard decoding of most or all of the new audio formats. That will likely be a better candidate for pairing up with the Model 990 when it arrives in a few months. I went ahead with the BD30 back in November because I suspect that I'm within a year or maybe less of an upgrade to an HDMI v1.3 processor and I wouldn't be willing to surrender my multichannel analog input in the interim anyway (making internal decoding of very little value to me).