Haha. S-video and composite jacks. Awesome. Because after I shell out $600 for this baby, $150 for a blu-ray drive for my PC, and maybe $200 for hard drives to store a blu-ray library, plus oodles for the movies themselves, I really want to downscale it to 480i resolution and watch on my grainy old 20" CRT.
I would imagine they were thinking "Sometimes someone is going to watch this on a non-HDTV, so it'd be nice if they could unplug it, take it to the bedroom with the SDTV, and plug it in there."
Yes, maybe you are right, but that has to be a pretty small minority of people willing to spend $600 on a piece of tech like this before replacing the TV in the bedroom with a medium sized LCD for about the same money.
“An engineer explained to us that hundreds of ear impressions were gathered in the name of research, and while each one obviously boasted its own unique shape and size, one single characteristic remained uniform across the board: the entrance into the ear canal is not a perfect circle, it's an oval.”
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Haha. S-video and composite jacks. Awesome. Because after I shell out $600 for this baby, $150 for a blu-ray drive for my PC, and maybe $200 for hard drives to store a blu-ray library, plus oodles for the movies themselves, I really want to downscale it to 480i resolution and watch on my grainy old 20" CRT.
Seriously, what were they thinking?
It also has component and HDMI jacks.
I would imagine they were thinking "Sometimes someone is going to watch this on a non-HDTV, so it'd be nice if they could unplug it, take it to the bedroom with the SDTV, and plug it in there."
@squiggleslash
Yes, maybe you are right, but that has to be a pretty small minority of people willing to spend $600 on a piece of tech like this before replacing the TV in the bedroom with a medium sized LCD for about the same money.