two hdmi out - why?
I read the write-up that went with the marantz ud9004 and note that the author makes a joke about having 2 seperate hdmi outs, one for picture and one for video - realy you should know better! nearly all cheap, medium range and some top end amps do not transferr the picture without some white snow or fuzz to the sharpness - often they will not allow 1080p at 24 feet. Many amp users run the image as source with no up-scaling as this often reduces quality ( which rather makes it a bit pointless regarding dvd and tape), many amp users run the picture from amp to tv via component rather than hdmi. So rather than make a joke about it we should be encouraging the makers of blu-ray players to add extra hdmi outs to midd range players and not just top end. My feed back from amp users is that Dennon amps hold the quality very well with little being lost during transferr, of course these are top of the range amps and should do well I guess. Simon
