With the announcement of OPPO's BDP-93 Blu-ray Disc player which will support 3D, offer dual HDMI outs and some other upgrades, I am beginning to wonder about the relevance of our current players which boast just one HDMI out for both audio and video...
I realize that OPPO's new player will allow for feeding two separate displays via the dual HDMI outputs, but my questions involve the other option for such a setup, which is separating audio from video feeds...which many enthusiasts and experienced hobbyists feel yields the best results, always.
Right now, many people like myself are running one single HDMI connection out of a source player and sending all audio and video over that one cable -- but the 1080p video must then be sent through a routing device, like an AV receiver, to be sent off to a display. Some question the fact that these receivers are not degrading the signal quality in some way, despite what the manufacturers claim, and that the only way to send signals from a source deck is to separate the audio from video.
Which brings me to OPPO's new player -- would this player be worth looking into for an end user such as myself that would configure the dual HDMI outs to have one send audio and the other video? Would this yield, in your opinions, more pristine, unaltered video as opposed to sending the video through a receiver (which I do now with my Onkyo 605) even though it's supposed to be going straight through the AVR with no degredation? Would there be a significant difference, do you think, between separating the audio and video streams from the player so video goes directly to the display, as compared to sending it all over one HDMI cable and letting a receiver split the video?