HDMI inputs will be very important for many reasons. Passing along the higher data rate (video and audio) makes it so.

I am currently happy with my 990. However, I think expctations is for Outlaw to release a "1000" early next year that mimics the 990, but adds;

Video switching with a minimum of 4 HDMI (v1.3) inputs, and decoding for all of the current audio formats.

Another small but nice feature would be to add more characters that can be used to label video and audio inputs.
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