There appears to be a great deal of mis-information out there about the reason behind the delays in receivers and processors that use the new Cirrus CS 49xxx series DSP chips. The bloggers who are spreading that info are doing everyone a great dis-service.

Reports that the dealys are due to HDMI issues are not true. The audio DSP chip does not connect to HDMI directly, but rather, it sees the streams that are output from the HDMI Receiver, or "Rx" chip. None of the audio DSP products out there now have built-in Rx capabilities, and while some of the video processing chips in the works from a number of manufacturers will add an on-boards Rx, none of the audio DSPs will.

The reasons, unfortunately, lie elsewhere. Let's just say that those who are talking don't know, and those who know are not talking. Wish I could talk, but I can't. (Those dang NDAs have sharp teeth these days.)

HDMI Rx chips are readily available with 1.3a capabilities from more manufacturers all the time, though for the moment Silicon Image is the leading supplier. They are NOT the problem.