mssturgeon said:
Define "any time soon". Don't you want your next display device to support it? It'd be a shame to drop several grand on a TV that won't support deep-color and be locked into that purchase for several years unable to take advantage of the deep-color sources that may hit the market in the mean time.
Don't forget that 1.3 also doubles the video bandwidth, adds support for new digital audio formats, and most importantly: automatic a/v synching capability ... which has been a big problem in some devices up to this point.
I'd hardly classify it as "mostly marketing hype".
- Shane Sturgeon
You are likly looking at the successor of the BD/HD formats. That would be in about 8 to 12 years. There may be some content offered as a download on the Internet but it would be short (because of the tremendous bandwidth involved for 36/42 bit color) and not feature films. I would not hold off buying a TV (I just bought a
HD10K projector) for 1.3 but on the next one it may be necessary.
Audio support has noting to do with video so having a 1.3 TV doesn't apply to the advanced audio codec support. Support for passing DD+, TrueHD, and DTS-HD (Master) over 1.3 is not all together necessary as long as the player decodes and send as lossless LPCM over HDMI.
The auto A/V sync is probably the most needed feature at this time in 1.3
