Hi,
I read an intresting article on the following dolby site:
http://www.dolby.com/consumer/technology/trueHD.html

As things stand today based on the article, ALL decoding ( video and audio ) will happen in the disc player.

Since majority of people use home theater for music and movies would it not be better for them to simply get a high end universal player that plays ( HD DVD, DVD etc) connected directly to a good 7 channel amplifier like 7125 + subwoofer in the future ?

What is the point of a preamp like 990, except switching audio/video sources ? The good quality DAC is anyway handled by the disc player as things stand proposed in the dolby article.