I have to ask: do people really use the multizone function on their recievers or pre/pros? In my limited experience with HT stuff I have never heard this as being an important feature for anybody. I would imagine it is important to the few who use it but it is worth making us who would buy the new pre/pro actually pay for it.

AND definitely no tuner. This falls under the same cost-benefit trade off as multi-zone. It seems that those who actually use a tuner really want a good one that would most likely be better served up as a separate component.

sorry if these issues have been discussed elsewhere but i figure the more voices the better on this.