still very stupid and irritating, they do know it's not hard to pirate HDMI? and 1080i has more motion issues unless the tv has GOOD de-interlacing, every interlaced source i have seen on a progressive TV shows interlaced artifacts. what are all the people who don't use HDMI going to do? i shouldn't be forced to spend 500 dollars on a new receiver just because they wan't me to use a different cable. this stuff really irritates me. besides, i really HATE HDMI, i used to use it just for video directly connected to my TV and it was nothing but problems, if it wasn't one issue it was another, and buying new cables didn't do much good. i've had "bumping" picture issues, random digital noise, sparkling on SD sources and other various annoyances.