You know HDMI has finally hit the mainstream when Bose decides its products need the new connector. A full five years (give or take a few months) has passed since the introduction of HDMI 1.0 and Bose is finally giving it a whirl in two of their latest Lifestyle products. The last remaining holdout (even Sherwood Newcastle and Harman Kardon have HDMI now) Bose updated its two new Lifestyle home theater systems with HDMI 1.2a connections (2 in, 1 out), built-in video transcoding and upscaling, and a hideaway media console, which connects with other source components.
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OMG! Up until now I wasn't concerned about HDMI technology.
But now that an industry leader like Blose has it,
I am ready to pull the trigger on Blose HDMI!
Acudeftechguy and I are waiting for the triampable cubes to come out, too.
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OMG! Up until now I wasn't concerned about HDMI technology.
But now that an industry leader like Blose has it,
I am ready to pull the trigger on Blose HDMI!
Acudeftechguy and I are waiting for the triampable cubes to come out, too.
Absolutely!
I can't sleep at night now eagerly anticipating this tri-ampable Bose cubes.
Oh boy! It has been on my Christmas List all this time. Bose has answer my prayers with HDMI, which I will somehow hook up to my analog preamplifier. No, wait, I will throw away all my preamps & amps and get the Bose HDMI system. But the icing on the cake would be a tri-ampable Bose cube. Unless Bose can shrink those massive 5-way gold-plated speaker posts of theirs into little bitty ones and make room for a quad-ampable Bose cube. Why, then Bose will sound better than any mono, bi, & tri-ampable speaker out there, except for the Linn Komri, which is also quad-ampable.
I remember when Bose first started putting DVD players in their systems, it took them forever to finally implement even component video connections. How can a company that is so far behind on technology maintain such a huge fan base?
It is possible they where trying to wait it out and get into the HDMI game once the quirks worked out, they must have gotten tired of waiting.
I guess next up for Bose will be a stand alone CD, DVD,DVD-A & SACD player. Ooh...or maybe just a disc transport with "mini-jewel" tubes and an outboard DAC. Clint or rather Bose failed to mention the industry leading ADAPTiQ® as a feature on these 2 new Lifestyle®-V systems, watch out Audyssey!
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How can a company that is so far behind on technology maintain such a huge fan base?
It must be that "Oh, honey, those little bitty Bose Cubes look so cute" factor.
People who buy Bose obviously have not auditioned other good sounding speakers.
How can a company that is so far behind on technology maintain such a huge fan base?
We're all guilty of buying average products at premium price. Whether it'd be cars, speakers, clothes or whatever. Bose just happens to be good at bosewashing people.
We're all guilty of buying average products at premium price. Whether it'd be cars, speakers, clothes or whatever. Bose just happens to be good at bosewashing people.
True. True. I have one of those Bose systems too. Must be the resentment--the thought that I was a sucker just like a lot of innocent people.
Bose Goes HDMI... 4 Years Later
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