Component Outputs?
I am a HUGE fan of having lots of video-out connectors, and in fact when I go shopping for just about any equipment, or when I am making recommendations to any of my tech-suppoprt clients for monitors or other equipment, we have that discussion about vidoe connectors, and how 'more is better' and usually means long-term value in equipment.
I use a legacy big screen projection TV and the only HD inputs I can use to get either 1080 or 720 HD are the component inputs. Finding video streamers that have component-out has been an ongoing challenge; there are a bunch, but you definitely have to do the research to find them.
It is unfortunate that manufacturers are leaving component-out connectors off of equipment - they are apparently doing it at the behest of the media behemoths, mostly because DRM cannot be enforced using component-out as it can using HDMI or DVI.
And thereis not much we as consumers can do about it, except continue to support and buy product from manufacturers who DO include those features.
I have a streamer from Netgear, from Iomega, and from Sony that supports compoent-out, as well as several video and tuner cards in various computers.
d.b
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