Quote Originally Posted by topspeed
That's the ticket right there. If they are the same price, why not get the one with more features? I think Ed says HDMI has theoretically a better picture than component, but I doubt you'd be able to tell without a SOTA projector and scaler.

Kex, I had to laugh when you described the morass of cables coming from the back of your DVD player. Mine is the same way! I think you can use the optical Denonlink from their DVD players to their AVRs to transfer multi-channel hi-rez, which would have been a lot cleaner (not to mention cheaper) but alas, they only offer that on the 3910 and up. Bastards .
DAMN RIGHT! After hours of sorting cables and running them as short and neat as possible, I can say one thing about my system. IT'S STILL FREAKIN' UGLY BACK THERE!!!

Too many darn cables these days. I pray to the a/v gods that HDMI will hit all receivers/dvd players/HD boxes/ and other sources ASAP so I can eliminate some 40 goofy cables with 3 or 4 neat HDMI's.

I'm sure all of us married folk can appreciate that this will be the single biggest breakthrough in years!