I will certainly let you know how well it does when I get it. Your right about the holy grail of HDMI 1.3, I've been waiting for it to come out before I make the upgrade for my receiver. Not that 1.3 will do us any good for a while yet but I'll have it when the technology catches up to the receiver.

I mainly want the 4 inputs and 2 outputs that the 9.8 has plus the new audio decoding. All the other nice features are truly a plus.

I hate waiting for new toys. I’m worse that a little kid waiting for Christmas.