Single HDMI cable: one cable from player to pre/pro. Pre/pro splits off the audio to your amp. But also sends video to display. You get switching for free.

No you don't lose anything at the pre/pro. Plus, you can still use the audio at the display if you choose. For example, late at night viewing when you don't want to fire up your whole system.

Beside, if you want two cables, one for audio, one for video, it'd be i.Link plus DVI. Obviously, one of which the Outlaw does not have. Has coax and Toslink, but then what about DVD-A and SACD? Oh yeah, the 990 *digitizes* the 5.1 analog inputs. There's a great solution for those that don't mind 24/192 DVD-As and 2.45 GHz SACDs downsampled to 24/96...