That certainly does sound doable and make good sense.

The only quibble I would have is that Tact announced the TCS3 would be ready in May 2008 without making any annoucements about a de-encypting HDMI amp. But of course it hasn't been released either........

One of the posters on the AVS thread when asked how the TCS3 could output digital with an HDMI source stated: "it's down sample to 48 khs uncompressed pcm. No problem with HDMI if it was 96 khz it WOULD BE A Problem."

I assume that is totally incorrect?