I hope that you are right about Blu-Ray. I would prefer that to be the "winner". I have $400 worth of Sony points burning a hole in my pocket!

As I said in another thread I think that the 970 is a nice stop gap piece of equipment until HDMI is sorted out. I really don't expect that type of availability in the Outlaw products for about 3 years.

I thought that HDMI 1.1 was needed for backward compatibility with a standard DD or DTS track. I thought that 1.3 would be necessary for the newer versions of DD and DTS in 7 channell uncompressed audio.

Regards,

Charlie