jhunt1 - Not sure what you mean by HDMI not being viable for at least a few years. My cable STB already has audio and video on HDMI, as do several Universal DVD players not to mention a lot of the new displays handling audio and video over HDMI. It is only the Pre/Pros that are lagging behind but hopefully they will catch up later in the year. This is today so I'm not sure why you think it is not going to be viable for a few more years.

nfaguys - The attraction to audio over HDMI (DVI was never designed to do audio)is for hi-rez multi-channel sources that exist today and for future HD versions of Dolby Digital and DTS. S/PDIF just doesn't have the bandwidth of Firewire or HDMI or even DVI for that matter.