I agree on the fate of HDMI as far as what we will see at some point in the future, but I have not been able to find anything online to indicate that there is a clear and sure-fire standard in place for how it will work - heck, there's even a chance (very slim, of course, but still a little promising since it would avert another VHS/Beta or DVD-A/SACD sort of format war) that HD-DVD and Blu-Ray may end up merged into a single format, and the final specs for such a beast are anyone's guess. That the specs will include HDMI for audio and video seems inevitable, but that alone isn't enough to design hardware around. I'd rather see good products get released now than have to wait for the format war to shake out before getting anything new.

The DVI switching has not been identified as being HDCP compliant, but I have to assume that it is - not doing so would be the same as glueing on a set of decorative connectors as far as usefulness is concerned.