Anything is possible, but it's not something that anybody can speak knowledgeably about. Asking for what impact it will have now is not going to yield a definitive answer of any sort - I doubt even Silicon Image could answer it.

The case of Klipsch and Mirage is one that's similar to other instances of one company being bought by another that makes the same sort of products (whether speaker companies, plumbing fixture companies, credit card companies, banks, or many others) and one company's product line and history gets diluted or altered in undesirable ways. Silicon Image has no existing video processing offerings, so they are using the ABT purchase to enter a new market. That could prove good for them, or their inexperience in the market could cause future ABT products to fail to live up to the lineage that has come before. In the short term, it could have no impact at all for the Model 978 or it could make it harder to get answers to questions that arise during beta testing. In the long term, it's anybody's guess...