There has been some discussion of changing the level adjustment and distance settings as you suggest, but since Outlaw has commented elsewhere (in response to a review of the Model 1070) that they feel that the benefits of going from 1.0dB to 0.5dB and from 1 foot to 0.5 foot are effective indistinguishable I'm guessing that it's not high on their list. Adding a fourth component input to a future processor is not likely because we're likely to see more and more hardware moving from component to HDMI. The 990's DVI switching was a way to get digital video switching without getting tied up in the uncertain status of HDMI's audio side. Odds are that a successor to the 990 (which would not be likely to appear until 2007 or 2008 based on the 950's production life) would include three or four HDMI inputs as well as probably conversion of analog video to digital so an HDMI monitor output could be used with all video inputs. For the time being, the DVI switching seems to have been a pretty effective solution.