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My apologies-its nothing personal

As David said, I am rather skeptical of coming technologies. Lots of promises, lots of hot air. Its not against you, but the people who make the promises. I get tired of hearing about potential that just takes forever to happen. Did you know, that the first few months CDs came out, Sony et al. was talking about how we would soon have picture CDs, interactive CDs, video CDs, CDs for your computer? Yes, they did happen, but how long did some of these take to reach the consumer? 10 years? There are lots of other examples of technologies promises.
Now we are talking about HDMI, a suckass connection forced on us due to content owner's paranoia. HDMI was never about helping the consumer, it is about enabling copy protection. As you know, there have been alot of issues due to this. Now we are supposed to replace everything for the new decimal point of the month? I don't think so. What happens when 1.4 inevitably comes out?
If you want or need it, by all means go for it. That's fine for the few on the true bleading edge, but for the rest of the 99.9+% of the people, its not needed, and in many cases it causes confusion due to the sales hype-"This TV is better because it has HDMI 1.3!".
To be honest, I'm surprised you listen to the hype as much as you do.
But, that's just me.
Jack


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