Will 2008 be the year for Selectable Output Control?

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Leonardo DiCrapio @ Dec 6th 2007 3:16PM

HDMI seems like it was a collaboration between the content providers and the electronics manufacturers. Most people will be forced to upgrade their equipment, so the electronics manufacturers end up winning. My 27" Sony CRT SDTV that I bought in 2000 had S-Video which was brand new to me because I got a DVD player with S-Video as a birthday present in 2000 (I bought the TV after I got the DVD player). In the last ten years, average consumers have seen with new HDTV's, three additional newer, better video interfaces (DVI, component, and HDMI -- with HDMI carrying audio, also).

Not using HDMI usually leads to the inability to upconvert DVD's with most DVD players -- I hacked my Oppo, though. I have a Yamaha RX-V2500 A/V receiver (without HDMI). I have a sub-$100 RCA HD-DVD player I bought on EBay that I will use the analog 5.1 outputs to get Dolby TrueHD from whatever HD DVD's offer it (i.e. Batman Begins and Blade Runner). Unless I got a top of the line Toshiba HD-XA2 or HD-A35 (both of which were more than I wanted to pay for considering I will not even be getting 1080p out of them), I had to go with a 1st generation player (which I did) in order to get the best audio. I don't have my Oppo hooked up with analog 5.1 outputs (I have no SACD's or DVD-Audio discs, so it probably would not be worthwhile).

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