In Reply to: RE: Oppo vs Sony posted by Disbeliever on May 31, 2012 at 06:26:14:
Kal Rubinson wrote:
"Reviewers and consumers were not flocking to HATS, so Sony has axed it from all current products. It is gone, and I think if it had been as great as the hype, it would still be around."
That was not the problem with HATS which, like similar "audio rate control" schemes, worked well. The problem is/was that each of them was proprietary so that a Sony player would not work with a Pioneer AVR and vice versa . The corollary, of course, is that still other manufacturers would not include any ARC scheme because they had to choose their compatibility.
A great example of how the lack of an industry standard cost us a useful feature.
Kal
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