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1tribeca

Audioholic
I was told by an A/V installer that the allowable usage of a series of components hooked up through an HDMI connection is 4. So, after say...a TV, receiver, DVD and satellite, you run out of license room and you're SOL! Since the components can "talk" to each other with HDMI, there's no way cheat the system.

Is this true? If so, that bites...hope that little hiccup doesn't last forever.

What's the answer? keep using component?
 
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mjhamre

Audioholic Intern
I've never heard of anything remotely like that. There is a new Sherwood Newcastle receiver that will have 6 HDMI inputs supposed to be shipping later this year.

Since you mentioned in SERIES are you sure they were not talking about the longest possible chain? A normal chain would be HD-DVD -> Receiver -> Projector, or PS3 -> Receiver -> Plasma. I might believe that for some copy protection reason they limited the path length to four devices total, but as far as I know you will have no problem hooking up as many devices as you need to assuming your receiver has enough inputs and outputs.

--Matt
 
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1tribeca

Audioholic
Sorry, I apologize I wasn't clear. I did indeed mean in a chain. Only 4 components total in the loop.

This sounds like a step back to me...will this be forever?
 
mr-ben

mr-ben

Audioholic
I also haven't heard of this, but even if true, I don't see how anyone would go beyond 4 in a single chain. Your description seems to have only a chain length of three, since the satellite and DVD are not in the same chain. Two chains of three:

DVD->receiver->TV
Satellite->receiver->TV

I could see four if there was some sort of signal amplifier/converter in there before the TV, but I can't think of a need for 5.
 

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