this is a novice opinion ... confused
my feeling is that HDMI was\is developped with intentions of preventing more than allowing...
it serves business interests rather than consumer's...maybe a little too much

all this dressed up in the promise of uncomparable images...and sounds coming from places we couldn't imagine...
yet we are the guinea pigs once again...

I can relate to eliminating execss wires...
but I also prefer to separate my video and audio signals...
DVI suits me fine on the very few 1080i signals I can get...
and for movie audio...
my UNTRUE Doldy Digital and my less than ''super-morphed''DTS do the job...
maybe less is more... wink
so no boat ride in sight for a while...
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