Any 4K capture devices on the horizon?

[wayner]

Originally Posted by jchiso

I've replaced two fairly-new receivers (one less than one year old) to accommodate HDMI 2.0 for 4K, but who knows how long until 2.3b or 3.0 comes along and starts producing "content unavailable" messages on my screen? It's the whole HDMI thing. At the end of the day it will just be like navigating an obstacle course just to be able to record as-broadcast, multi-audio-channel streams.

This is peripheral to our topic but AVRs have been annoyance of mine since they become outdated so quickly due to changing interconnection methods. I have a few AVRs that are fine, except for the fact that they have no HDMI inputs. And for my main HT setup a few years ago I had to replace my AVR (or bump it down to another TV) as it only had three HDMI inputs. And you are right that once I go to 4K I will probably be screwed on this front again, and it is kind of an annoyance since on the video side it is really just acting as a switch in most instances and that functionality you can buy for about $30 at Monoprice.

[stanger89]

Originally Posted by wayner

This is peripheral to our topic but AVRs have been annoyance of mine since they become outdated so quickly due to changing interconnection methods.

How are you getting Dolby TrueHD or DTS-HD MA? Or ATMOS or DTS:X? Connection methods are rarely a problem, it's usually new features that outdate an AVR.

I had an AVM20 well into the HDMI era, I got by for a while with my Blu-ray player decoding to analog, but then I started getting more devices (HD300) that could play but not decode TrueHD/DTS-HD MA. I upgraded to an AVM50V, not because I needed HDMI (my system was working fine) but because I wanted HD/lossless audio.

I eventually replaced that to get 3D audio, again the prior SSP was working fine, it was audio/SSP features that pushed me to upgrade, not changing interconnect standards.

...and it is kind of an annoyance since on the video side it is really just acting as a switch in most instances and that functionality you can buy for about $30 at Monoprice.

If that's really all it is, just get an HDMI switch from Monoprice. It's easy enough to integrate that with a universal remote. That's what I'm doing in my living room. I demoted my AVM20 to my living room, and have a monoprice HDMI switch to switch sources. The HDMI switch extracts the audio to S/PDIF which goes to my AVM20 (which is fine for the stereo speakers there). One remote controls it all.

[jchiso]

Originally Posted by wayner

... And you are right that once I go to 4K I will probably be screwed on this front again, and it is kind of an annoyance since on the video side it is really just acting as a switch in most instances and that functionality you can buy for about $30 at Monoprice.

For the record: I'm on my third "$30", "Monoprice" switch for my desktop 4K monitor.

But another point about the "chasing our tails" nature of this stuff, I notice that devices like that Declink capture card only do 4K at 30hz. So to me, that's a killer limitation for a true 4K capture device ...