The 990 should have had an i.Link input. All of Yamaha, Pioneer, Onkyo/Integra, Denon, and Sony support it with various players and receivers (and pre/pros). Plus, Anthem is coming out with a hardware upgrade for their AVM-30 and D1 pre/pros to add i.Link, and B&K might as well.

Outlaw in the past has been very quick to include higher priced performance features in their very reasonably priced components as a way to undercut the competition (i.e., the analog BM the 950 has). They could have scored a real coup by including i.Link in a pre/pro this competitively priced.

Personally, I view the DVI switching that they did include as not very useful since the world has settled on HDMI anyway. My question: how much different would the 990 have cost if instead of DVI, they had included i.Link, which I view as much more value added...