You don't need a new receiver to take advantage of the new surround formats such as TrueHD, Dolby Digital Plus, and DTS-HD. All of the HD-DVD players contain decoders in them that will decode these surround formats and output them via analog 5.1, optical, digital coax, or HDMI. Many receivers today have at least one of those connections, HDMI being the newest and more expensive. You can then either overlay post processing if you like (Such as THX surround processing) or simply leave the signal as-is. There is no need to have two decoders doing the same thing. http://www.tacp.toshiba.com/dvd/product.asp?model= hd-a1
Watching the commentary on the DVDs, in the second season they show how animation is done on each episode. For the xerox color fills and frame by frame animation, it's all done in Korea. So, you're saying that every season of the Simpsons sucked?
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You don't need a new receiver to take advantage of the new surround formats such as TrueHD, Dolby Digital Plus, and DTS-HD. All of the HD-DVD players contain decoders in them that will decode these surround formats and output them via analog 5.1, optical, digital coax, or HDMI. Many receivers today have at least one of those connections, HDMI being the newest and more expensive. You can then either overlay post processing if you like (Such as THX surround processing) or simply leave the signal as-is. There is no need to have two decoders doing the same thing.= hd-a1
http://www.tacp.toshiba.com/dvd/product.asp?model
Watching the commentary on the DVDs, in the second season they show how animation is done on each episode. For the xerox color fills and frame by frame animation, it's all done in Korea. So, you're saying that every season of the Simpsons sucked?
Nintendo has actually already come up with this technology. Do you remember Virtual Boy http://www.virtual-boy.org/ and the Power Glove? http://www.rolandit.com/games/Peripherals/viewperi pheral.asp?GID=7 :-)