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Originally posted by: anubis6789
Btw a component signal is not compressed when it reaches the TV, whatever is sending the signal tends to decompress the signal before it gets turned into analog (I have never in my life heard of analog compression).
It's not "compressed" in the digital sense, so much as "information is removed to make it fit." It has less color space, this is somewhat noticeable with good source material on a lot of TV's. But in general I agree, HDMI is largely an issue of convenience, with fidelity coming in behind it.