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Originally posted by Meridialien:
[QB] It would certainly help if they stopped tinkering with the HDMI specification . Onkyo's upcoming HD player features 1.3a but does anyone believe that that will be the last ?
It doesn't much matter from M's side as everything they need is in 1.3. Everything == Codec or PCM bitstreams.

1.3A is higher bandwidth out to 48-bits.


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Much as I would love a quick fix , that's not really M's way . Those of us who remember bug fixing cycles for 500 , 800 and G Series' probably realise that there is a whole world of hurt relating to compatibilty issues t be sorted out .
This is a slippery slope. You can wait and wait and wait for things to sort out and get further behind. The timing of introduction is important and we're coming up on the 18-month mark at CEDIA and at CES we'll be pushing towards 24-month for launch of HD Optical.


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By this fall , there will be 3 different versions of BD players on sale as well as different specced Hd-Dvd players and I would prefer it if M sort out as much as possible in the Lab before asking me to lay down my �
Yes; but all generations support a base set of specs. As long as M comes out with 1.3 they are covered for the foreseeable future. In modern times it seems as though "the foreseeable future" equates to 10 days from now wink

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