As you may know, Outlaw can trace some of its roots back to NAD (at least one Outlaw used to work for them), so the similarity comes as no surprise.

I-Link is one of several (too many) different names for the same thing: IEEE-1394. Firewire is another, more common name for it. From what I understand, 1394 was accepted as the digital audio interface to be used with high resolution digital audio such as that used on DVD-Audio and SACD. It was intended for use with multichannel audio, so it should carry a full six-channel digital signal. The acceptance of 1394 as the interface is several years old, but the encryption used across 1394 was not included in that acceptance. It took longer to hash that out, leading to a few proprietary approaches (most notably be Denon and Pioneer). That obstacle is only now falling away.

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[This message has been edited by gonk (edited May 28, 2004).]