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Originally posted by Kevin C Brown:
DVI is an 8 bit pathway. HDMI is higher than that. I personally wouldn't assume that the switching in the 990 wouldn't discard that below black info. Someone should ask Outlaw. They should be able to find out.

This problem has been reported on AVS with players outputting HDMI then converted to DVI for the display. If the 990 has 8 bit digital switching for DVI, it's very unlikely that it'll pass higher res than that.
Actually RGB is a 8-bit pathway.

The Sil DVI chips (Tx/Rx) support three digital video data lines with data rates of 1.65 Gbps each regardless of the video stream bit depth.

The DVI chips used for Tx and Rx do not support color space conversion as the HDMI chips do.

The below black (and above white) problems on some DVD players and displays are caused by video processing before or after the DVI Tx/Rx chips.