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Originally posted by VirusKiller:

I agree that it is slightly surprising that most G-series upgrades require a "major rebuild". However, I'm not convinced that the two-thirds of a G68 replacement suggested by JK could have been predicted three+ years ago when the G68 was on the drawing board.
I would disagree with this, in that M- of any other designer in world knows the technical requirements for lossless data rates having invented MLP, having invented and deployed MHR;

I think M- would know more than enough 3 years ago about the architecture and processing required for an eventual HDMI (or other) interface to accomplish this - we're not talking about knowing the actual protocols, formats, algorithms etc.; just the amount of processing and architecture required;

It's not that big a stretch, given the knowledge M- has about these issues and I would consider it a failure on M-'s part if they did not provide the path, even if on the expensive side;

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