I've been waiting to update/upgrade for quite a while now. I wanted to move to Outlaw a while back, but couldn't justify spending money on a product running DVI instead of HDMI. HDMI was new, but clearly would replace DVI in time. Outlaw did the right thing by not jumping to the early versions of HDMI, but it has been a long wait for them to have such a product. For me, my PS3 is my Blu-Ray player. So with no 7 channel analog outputs, the only way to get the lossless audio formats to my sound system is through HDMI. I think the 997 will reward my patience, so I sit and wait...patiently...