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jaco - why the interest in a bus solution? sounds intriguing - what would you do with it -vs- a point-to-point solution?

doody.

The card they had running was carrying both audio and video.

I believe when this card comes out, its main purpose is video only. In order to do audio and video, you will either daisy chain or run two outputs. (when I asked, they said you could do both.) I don't believe they are sure which way they are going to go yet.

If it is daisy chained, the 861 would then have a card that has an input and output. It would be a bit more money because it would need both the Silicon Image receiver and transmitter.

Over at the Silicon Image booth, they had it plugged into a Panasonic with HDMI. They cable run was 25 meters.

Stacey,
You are soo correct about the average consumer. My reaction to all this SACD / DVD-A winning a format war is: both dont matter to the mass market and offer nothing compelling to the mass market. MLP does offer something compelling- an improved compression scheme in terms of sound quality.

MP3- my take on this is as everyone else but I find a kind of poetic justice in that the record companies admitted to gouging the consumer for years and now they are getting their just disserts. I am all in favor of their fully protecting their IP, but Im not in a fan of these non CD compliant discs nor gouging us. As far as Im concerned, they can stop making new CDs right now. I already have all the good music I could want and I legally bought it and I also have it all ripped at 320kps and will re-rip it into the 880 when it arrives............ (well, not all of it, and not all with MLP, some music can get ripped at the higher compression of MP3)

I would not speciffic be interested in a bus system. But a bus would be more economic/Easy than multiple point to point connections i think.
You could just connect - DVD player, amplifier, projector. If you would have a digital recording device, plug it in between the the amp and the projector.
This scenme avoids having 2 inputs on a projector. But disadvantage might be the copy protection issue.

Well, since i still have a CRT projector, i do not need to worry about a HDMI input.. My 800's component output into a Holo3D and than with RGBHV to my CRT works just fine.

Jaco