It is good to hear that Outlaw is heading down this path.

I am sure there are those that stubbornly insist 5.1 era technology is more than enough for their home theater enjoyment but the market reality is driven by new formats for the content creators and firms that do not offer solutions to reproduce these formats cannot flourish.

I respect the decision of the Outlaw management team to be a little guarded about a release schedule and perhaps even keep some of the features close-to-the-vest, those of us that remember the unfortunate pressure from a North American based marketer of home AV equipment certainly do not wish to see that repeated.

Given the added computational power and extended high speed memory of the coming product I am sure it will include auto-setup features. It is my sincere hope that some thought also be given to the high resolution room correction as well as the increasing potential for "field upgrade-able" firmware to support features like Auro 3D should that become a viable format.

While current offerings from DataSat and Trinnov seem to targeting the most extreme end of the home-theater market I cannot help but think Outlaw could gain major market share and huge positive brand loyalty (to say nothing of massive demand...) if they approached this is a "rule breaking" manner ...

http://www.cepro.com/article/datasat_processor_amp_bring_movie_theater_quality_to_homes/

http://www.virtual-strategy.com/2015/01/...s#axzz3PZdKtyv4