The beauty of the DVD-A format is it IS the DVD format. Any standard DVD compatible player SHOULD play it. I've only seen one DVD-A not play and it was in a friend's Pioneer Elite DVD player. The same DVD-A played in my old Sony DVD player and my new Samsung BD-P1600.

As for me...for future compatibility and convenience (I'm tired of hitting the TV source button to get the HDMI for my BD-P1600) bring on the 997 so I don't have to manually switch anymore.