There's lots of discussions about this at avsforum.com. The consensus is that 1.3 is not necessary. Even if your receiver has hdmi 1.1 then if the high def player can decode the new high def format then the uncompressed pcm can be passed over the hdmi 1.1 connection. Check out this thread...
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Matt @ Oct 13th 2006 2:31PM
There's lots of discussions about this at avsforum.com. The consensus is that 1.3 is not necessary. Even if your receiver has hdmi 1.1 then if the high def player can decode the new high def format then the uncompressed pcm can be passed over the hdmi 1.1 connection. Check out this thread...
http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=728521&highlight=hdmi+1+3