We should be realistic about what Outlaw is going include in the 998. For one it is already spec'd and will limit its support for the legacy components. It will support some but it won't be geared towards that as a primary focus. For those of us that have legacy gear we need to find another solution. If you have a lot of older gear the 990 is available on various sites and will support the older gear just fine. It might be possible to use the output of the 990 as an input to the 998 for DVI and Toslink. It would be pretty confusing but I think it could work. You could use the 990 as a big patch board.