Posted by Joshua Zyber on 11/15/06 12:48

"Derek Janssen" <ejanss@nospam.comcast.net> wrote in message
news:tdCdnYmdOIFzzMfYnZ2dnUVZ_sidnZ2d@comcast.com...
>> Both HD DVD and Blu-ray players are capable from a hardware
>> perspective of allowing full High Definition video to be output over
>> analog Component Video. In the future, some discs may be encoded with
>> an Image Constraint Token (ICT) that will automatically reduce the
>> video resolution of the Component connections to either 480p or 540p
>> output. However, as yet no discs contain that flag, and word is that
>> the movie studios have an unofficial pact not to employ it until at
>> least 2010.
>
> So, even the two game-players have component connections, instead of
> just HDMI?
> (I don't know, I'm asking!)

The XBox360 has only component and VGA connections, no HDMI at all. The
PS3 has component and HDMI. Both are capable of delivering full High
Definition.

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