What I’m excited about is this auto lip-sync feature. Not sure how it works yet, but it sure can’t be any worse than the current situation. My new HDTV has a picture lag of about 200ms, more than any audio delay in my Blu-ray player can compensate. It’s driving me nuts. The choice is either stereo audio over the TV’s output (which is adjusted for delay) or surround audio that’s way, way early. Anyway, so any change to that situation is much appreciated!
I won’t be able to afford this or have any need for it for at least 10 years. Indeed, I’m thinking about getting a smaller TV anyway.
Current HDMI standards do all I want and more.
So does the new standard mean new cables? I still have some cables I’ve never used.
“1080p is more pixels than anyone will ever need on a TV.”
*–**Virgil Tibbs *(poss. apocryphal)
Newer protocol, same cables.
Says someone who must never desire using closed captions.
I haven’t seen anything mentioned about HDCP and HDMI2.0. The latest HDCP 2.x is supposedly for “newer” types of devices, I’m wondering if the HDMI2.0 stuff will qualify.
HDCP is a royal pain for some people. And since you can buy $30 gizmos that get around it from major online retailers (just not labeled as such), it doesn’t really stop the pirates. Just makes some regular folk unhappy. Especially the people who bought HDMI input TVs in the very early days before HDCP came out.
Another round of “screw the people owning existing hardware” is not really needed.
Yeah, for me the real bugger about the old way was that you had to turn the box off to turn captions on/off. Real helpful when you’re recording on one or both tuners and want to toggle the captions on a recording you’re watching… :rolleyes:
Now if only they’d update it so you don’t have to turn the box off to change the output resolution (my dad’s old non-DVR HD comcast cable box could do this with a single button press, but not the DVR…)
And it’s more than you’re likely to ever get from a cable/sat provider. They just don’t have the bandwidth to deliver anything higher than 1080i. And even 1080i and 720p have to be compressed to hell.
Unless you have something like a Bluray player, computer, streaming media box, or game console hooked up to your TV, 1080p is more than you’ll ever need. But obviously there are a lot of people banking on those sort of things taking over.
I didn’t think this was worth a new thread so I’m resurrecting this one.
Netflix is testing out streaming for the new 4k Ultra HD standard.
There’s nothing really yet to watch but if you thought that it would be impossible to stream 4k, it looks like it might not be.
Go for generic - $5.79. Should work just fine.