Originally posted by gonk:
[QUOTE]I don't know how easy that would be for a company structured the way they are - there's a lot of risk if the horse you invest R&D effort into loses.
How many millions of dollars were lost by both the winner (Sony) and the loser (Toshiba) in the Blu ray vs. HD DVD war? I think that Outlaw is similar to Oppo in that they must wait for a given technology to 'mature' as Oppo has done with their upcoming Blu ray combi player.
Sony always seems to be the 800 pound gorilla, and their decision to not include multi-channel analog outs on the PS3 has forced users like me to step up to a processor like the 997 in order to get hi-rez surround audio.