You are correct gonk. I'm not even sure I knew about coax to toslink converters at the time. And now that I know about them, lack of inputs isn't an issue.

Now all I'm lacking are HDMI inputs that accept multichannel lossless audio, but I think I can live without that for some time to come. Particularly since my future HD DVD transport of choice (Xbox 360 HD DVD drive) doesn't offer HDMI 1.3 output.

Although really, I'm waiting for Oppo to come out with an HD-DVD transport.