"... I don't know that the Xbox 360 Elite is going to be compliant with the newest revision of the high-bandwidth digital-content protection (HDCP) ..."(Of coure you remember; you hang on my every word.)
Turns out it the Xbox 360 Elite supports HDMI 1.2 -- but not 1.3.
What does this mean? Not much, other than it's a bit behind the curve, since the PlayStation 3 supports the 1.3 spec. Other features in the 1.3 spec, absent from the 1.2:
- Support for Dolby TrueHD and DTS-HD Master Audio streams
- Audio / lip sync technology
- Greater transfer speed (I think this is only for stuff over 1080p, which is the current maximum)
- Support for Deep Color (probably no impact in current TVs)
I don't know that these are deal breakers, but the audio stream is probably the "biggest" today impact -- but I suspect a lot of audio- / videophile folks (PS3 and Xbox) are attaching their consoles optically to their surround sound system.
But this is arguably a hefty conceptual shortcoming -- Microsoft is coming out with a product that is downspec from the market.
I don't know enough about HDMI to know if this is update able via download over Xbox Live (the PS3 has been receiving a steady stream of updates since launch).
Anyone know?
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