Next-Gen DVD Players to Rely on HDMI?

Next-Gen DVD Players to Rely on HDMI? 169

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday February 20, 2006 @07:43AM from the wouldn't-that-just-take-the-cake dept.

RX8 writes "For those thinking about upgrading to either Blu-Ray or HD-DVD when they become available, you may want to think again. According to Designtechnica, the next-generation players will not support 1080i or 1080P and quite possibly not even 720P using the component video connection, it will have to use HDMI. Why? Because of copyright enforcement. Hollywood wants these new players to get rid of component video all together. So if you have an HDTV and want to use these new players, chances are you are out of luck. Neither the Blu-Ray or HD-DVD camps are officially saying anything about this yet, but early players are only showing these high resolutions using the HDMI connection."

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Re:No problem (Score:3, Funny)

by Golias ( 176380 ) writes: on Monday February 20, 2006 @01:20PM (#14761893)

Your experiment requires that I watch "Episode 2" more than once, something which I would not wish upon my worst enemy, let alone something I would ever subject myself to.

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