For folks sporting older receivers with optical inputs, HDMI 1.3 is meaningless. I have my 9 year old 5.1 and so the HDMI running to my TV gets only video. Audio goes to my old receiver. For people like me, there are no benefits to the new HDMI, sadly.
1) If you have multiple components with HDMI components (HD cable box, HD satellite receiver, Blu-ray, HTPC, etc.) you only have 1 HDMI cable going to your TV (the one from your receiver) instead of a whole bunch of dangling cables.
2) You only need to do your switching at one source (the receiver) instead of twice (receiver & TV inputs).
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For folks sporting older receivers with optical inputs, HDMI 1.3 is meaningless. I have my 9 year old 5.1 and so the HDMI running to my TV gets only video. Audio goes to my old receiver. For people like me, there are no benefits to the new HDMI, sadly.
There are 2 benefits here that I can think of:
1) If you have multiple components with HDMI components (HD cable box, HD satellite receiver, Blu-ray, HTPC, etc.) you only have 1 HDMI cable going to your TV (the one from your receiver) instead of a whole bunch of dangling cables.
2) You only need to do your switching at one source (the receiver) instead of twice (receiver & TV inputs).