Home Theater Forum - View Single Post - Why are the following good features of Blu-Ray products?

chuckg · 04-22-2008, 03:06 PM

I hate HDMI. Who designed this mess? Why could they not have used two separate feeds, one for audio and one for video, since the two signals will almost certainly need to go two different boxes. And, why make up yet another connector and protocol? Could they not have used ethernet?

I'm hoping someday that there will be an AV pre/pro that actually, really, truly accepts any input and provides all the switching and mangling of the signal, then sends it out to your audio amps and video display. Maybe even more than one output set, so that you can monitor system operations on one little screen.

And, of course it will have ethernet so you can wire it into your home network.

04-22-2008, 03:06 PM	#6 of 7
chuckg Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Local Time: 08:50 PM Local Date: 10-11-2008 Posts: 663	Re: Why are the following good features of Blu-Ray products? I hate HDMI. Who designed this mess? Why could they not have used two separate feeds, one for audio and one for video, since the two signals will almost certainly need to go two different boxes. And, why make up yet another connector and protocol? Could they not have used ethernet? I'm hoping someday that there will be an AV pre/pro that actually, really, truly accepts any input and provides all the switching and mangling of the signal, then sends it out to your audio amps and video display. Maybe even more than one output set, so that you can monitor system operations on one little screen. And, of course it will have ethernet so you can wire it into your home network. --ignore the man behind the curtain