Sorry about opening up yet another thread about HD Leeza, but the time is fast approaching when those of us who have digital Leezas and pioneer plasmas will have to choose between upgrading to an HD Leeza or a KD card, and I figured it would be good to have a thread devoted narrowly to that topic. I'll start it off by copying an email I just sent to michaellucky:
"Hi, Michael. We're all getting pretty excited that release day is coming. But I -- like many people on the avs forum -- remain on the fence about whether to upgrade to KD's pio card or KD's HD Leeza for my pioneer 503cmx. The major tradeoffs seem to be the following:
1. For people who get the HD Leeza: simple sdi to dvi path but no HDCP support since the pio's 5002 card is not HDCP compliant.
2. For people who get the KD card: uncertain sdi to dvi path but perfect out of the box HDCP support.
To aid us in this decision, can you let us know (a) how KD plans to deal with the HDCP issue for pioneer owners who go with the HD Leeza and (b) how KD plans to create an sdi to dvi path for people who go with the KD card?
Thanks. (By the way, I plan to post this on avsforum as well, so when you answer you may want to answer there as well.)"
Any other thoughts?
(I got an automatic response from Michael's email that he is off on vacation through April 27, so we likely won't hear from him for a while, as someone already mentioned in another thread.)
"Hi, Michael. We're all getting pretty excited that release day is coming. But I -- like many people on the avs forum -- remain on the fence about whether to upgrade to KD's pio card or KD's HD Leeza for my pioneer 503cmx. The major tradeoffs seem to be the following:
1. For people who get the HD Leeza: simple sdi to dvi path but no HDCP support since the pio's 5002 card is not HDCP compliant.
2. For people who get the KD card: uncertain sdi to dvi path but perfect out of the box HDCP support.
To aid us in this decision, can you let us know (a) how KD plans to deal with the HDCP issue for pioneer owners who go with the HD Leeza and (b) how KD plans to create an sdi to dvi path for people who go with the KD card?
Thanks. (By the way, I plan to post this on avsforum as well, so when you answer you may want to answer there as well.)"
Any other thoughts?
(I got an automatic response from Michael's email that he is off on vacation through April 27, so we likely won't hear from him for a while, as someone already mentioned in another thread.)