Some of those other "factors" are only factors if the small companies continue to engage in the feature war with the big boys. Outlaw, Emotiva, etc. should give up that fight and give up those consumers who care about such things. IMO, small companies like Outlaw need a different value proposition that - yes - will likely not woo a lot of mainstream consumers but will net them some niche customers.
Personally, I agree entirely with you, and have been sounding like a broken record about it for some time now. I still prefer to have a number of these features kept separate from the processor entirely. You can't separate it all, though. Video processing, for example, is rapidly becoming a "basic feature" of receivers and processors. Separate video processing options are less widely used now. Fortunately, there are more reasonably packaged chipset options available that can be integrated with video switching (something that became a "basic feature" a while back). And room correction really belongs in the processor, since it is best applied in the digital domain.
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