The 990 platform is at end of life - it's still a great piece of gear, but I don't think it makes sense to invest in developing new products on that platform at this point. It's simply not going to be competitive over the ~2 to 3 year life span that Outlaw's receivers typically have. A new non-HDMI receiver in 2011 will be a dinosaur, and retrofitting it with HDMI v1.3 is a major undertaking that is simply not practical. If it were easy, we'd have seen a "991" processor that added HDMI to the 990 a year or two ago. Aside from needing a different DSP to handle decoding of the new formats, you need an entire HDMI receiving/transmitting section to feed it and a whole slew of new code to support all of that. Once you do that, you've replaced so much that what's left isn't recognizable - you are halfway to designing a new platform, and the work required to retain the old is likely just going to slow you down and add to the development costs.