This suggestion surfaces fairly regularly, and I agree that the time will come when we see composite and s-video go away. I don't know that Outlaw would be wise to be the ones to make a statement by omitting it, though - they are focused on the "bang for the buck" market, and as such are likely to continue to have a wide mix of customers and customer equipment.

My preference would be to see far fewer of these types of inputs along with more focus on HDMI and on flexibility in input configuration. This would allow those legacy devices to continue to survive while acknowledging the trend of more and more equipment moving to HDMI or at least component. As long as you have analog video of some sort present (which is still a necessity, I think, as component video's not ready to disappear just yet), you're going to need some sort of transcoding capability, so there's not likely to be a cost impact there.