by Oliver Amnuayphol
Still using component video in your HD rig? Me too--I haven't gotten to around to getting a new flat panel yet, and my old HD RPTV only features analog, 1080i component video hookups as HD compatible inputs. It looks plenty good to me, but apparently I can only procrastinate until 2013, when any Blu-ray player made after December 31, 2013 will be required to downconvert component video to SDTV (480i or 576i). The group that manages Blu ray's DRM decided 2014 was a good time plug the "analog hole" in hi-def transmissions so that copy-protected HDMI would be the only transmission method for HD signals. So if you spent boatloads of money on your hi-end CRT projector and wanna keep it; or still love your RPTV for its rich black levels; or prefer component video for its superiority over HDMI for long cable runs, you'll either have to hope and pray your current Blu ray player never, ever gives up the ghost, or stock up on 'em before 2014.
Movie Releases for Next Week.
DVD: Confessions of a Shopaholic; Inkheart; Waltz with Bashir (Criterion Collection); Last Year at Marienbad; My Dinner with Andre; The Code; Dragon Hunters; Pink Panther 2; Home.
Blu-ray: Confessions of a Shopaholic; Inkheart; Waltz with Bashir (Criterion Collection); Last Year at Marienbad; The Pianist; The Code; Dragon Hunters; Pink Panther 2; Origin: Spirits of the Past.
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