True. There's also no industry-standard interface for DVD-Audio (the firewire format that was announced recently still lacks an approved encryption scheme, from what I understand, making it largely useless as far as I can tell). But Outlaw has indicated that they hope the industry will adopt standards for these before they release the Outlaw DVD player and the high-end pre/pro -- which helps establish a time frame for the availability of such gear for charlie (in other words, not soon).

Note that while they have been fairly clear in newsletters in their desire to have digital output for DVD-A and if possible SACD, I don't think they've ever been as clear on the high-end pre/pro; I'm just looking at the evolution of the 950's feature list over the last couple years and guessing from some comments made about the high-end pre/pro. For all I know, they could be planning something else entirely.

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Gonk