Hi all,

I'm integrating my new 990 into a theater with multiple monitors (TV and projector) and am wondering why more video and audio inputs couldn't be provided by this beast? I mean, the 990 is blissfully free of prefab input select buttons (thank goodness, they're entirely virtual), so why limit the myriad video and audio hardware ports to a mere five combinations?

For example, my home theater setup would benefit from eight video input selections:

1: DVD S-video to TV
2: LD composite to TV/PROJECTOR
3: DSS S-video to TV
4: PC S-video to TV
5: XBOX S-video to TV/PROJECTOR
6: DVD component to PROJECTOR
7: DSS component to PROJECTOR
8: PC component to PROJECTOR

The 990 provides ALL of the necessary inputs (and then some) to accept these eight sources (five devices) concurrently. However, with only five virtual video inputs, I must write automation scripts (AMX/Panja) to navigate through the menus and swap inputs for DVD, DSS and PC on the fly. This is not easy, being that the source selections cannot be chosen discreetly; their states must be tracked.

Oh, but life would be so, so, very much easier if only we had eight (sixteen? twenty-four?) discreet video inputs. And why not? It's just software, right?

Thank you!

Dave