Yeah, Outlaw's tech support has been great. Their manual is a bit vague on a few things (like saying that video appears on both Video 1 Rec / Out composite and svideo terminals, if a video source is present, but it's strictly composite in to composite out and svideo in to svideo out -- no transcoding. Not that this is a problem, really, on secondary outputs, but the manual is wrong on the subject (pg. 36: "Recording a Source").

I did notice something odd after resetting the unit made Video 1 Rec /Out work : when selecting a component video source for the main outputs, the main composite and svideo outputs went dead. I would have expected them to be switched to their equivalents from the source (just like the secondary Video 1 Rec / Out output). If a composite or svideo source is selected for main output, they transcode to both main composite and svideo outputs (as well as main component output), as documented. What's odd is that I think I remember the "better" of svideo or composite source, if connected, being transcoded to both main svideo and composite outputs if component video input was selected (the 990 will not transcode component to svideo or composite), before I reset the unit. Of course, I'm probably mistaken.

Still, it would be nice if Outlaw documented what kind of switching was possible by the hardware, and what kind of restrictions are imposed by their software. (For, example, I can imagine that it should be possible to switch component video from a source to the main component output AND either svideo or composite video to both main composite and svideo outputs at the same time, but there is no way to select this in the video source config menu). Otherwise, it becomes difficult to tell what's a bug and what's a feature.