Oooh yeah! Maybe another feature to help differentiate the 998? Meridian owners seem to like it. I wonder how difficult it would be to integrate this with Trinnov? That would be a unique feature combination!

Thanks for clarifying who owns the rights.

Peter: wher's that update?

Hank,

Please look in the announcements section. We posted an update on Jan 26.

Peter

Outlaw has said the 978 will be "state of the art." I hope the only difference between the 978 & 998 will be Trinnov vs. Audyssey XT32. I don't want to buy the 978 only 6 months later wish I had waited for the 998 because it has a different feature set than the 978. I just don't want them to intentionally "hold back" features for the 998.

Based on their past announcements, I don't expect there to be much difference at all between the two beyond the room correction. We should know more definitively by the time the Model 978 is available, which would allow people to make an educated decision one way or the other.

Thanks Peter.
"...the release date is now targeted for late in the first half of this year."
I would be very disappointed, BUT for the past 8 months I've lived with the delay of one of our products being caused by - you guessed it - firmware. Evil firmware - more difficult than hardware. One bug fix hatches two more bugs. Our supplier's slow firmware development caused us to miss the holiday season with this one new product :-(
So, I'll hang tight. I assume you'll announce advance order placement at some time?

Peter,
Now that Silicon Image has acquired "select assets" from Anchor Bay Technologies, will that affect the use of the ABT chip in the 978? Do you have an alternative?
CT

I wouldn't think it would interfere with a product already in development. For that matter, I would expect Silicon Image to continue to support those ABT technologies. After all, that's why they spent the money on the ABT.

I know what you are saying, but nothing is final until it's final.

True. But I don't know why we should expect the change in ownership to affect development of products that are in the Model 978's position. If it was still on the drawing board, that might be a different matter. The Model 978 would only change if Silicon Image forced a change - which would be an odd thing for them to do if they want their ownership of ABT's technology to be profitable in the long term.