I can't say I'm in the market for a new pre-pro in the very near future. I was looking more and more at an Onkyo/Integra solution for one primary reason. A year ago I moved all of my media to a Windows Home Server (WHS), all dubbed in lossless WMA format for audio and ISO files for video. For this reason, any pre-pro that I may purchase will almost assuredly have to be DLNA 1.5+ certified so that I can stream music and video from my WHS. The Integra DHC-40.1 and 80.1 are already DLNA certified. Given the 998 will most likely not be available until 2011, I would highly recommend any new product ship with an ethernet port for upgradability and with DLNA compliance. If Outlaw can deliver a product sometime in 2011 with DLNA compliance, they would most likely get my business again (current 990 owner). Just my .02!