New 2023 onward AVRs with HDMI 2.1 - Media Player users beware!

[MidiMagic]

Another case where business put intellectual property and greed over compatibility.

There is a special place in hades for people who do this. Everything they try to do is incompatible.

 

[ar surround]

Another case where business put intellectual property and greed over compatibility.

There is a special place in hades for people who do this. Everything they try to do is incompatible.

I'm laughing at your comment because Paramount+ (with Showtime) sold the rights to Homeland and just pulled it from their streaming service without any warning. My wife and I were in the middle of season 4 of 9 when they pulled it. So I wrote on the QQ Streaming and Content thread that, "All of these streaming companies and the people who operate them can go to hell."

Talk about greed. But we QQ people are a nasty lot and have ways to get even.
[Edit: I forgot to mention that there are 37 copies of that series and season in our public library system. Ha ha.]

 

[letting1]

I'm planning to update my system to include a Kodi media player on a NUC and a new Marantz Cinema 70S using its pre-out capabilities. There's a NUC8BEK Mini PC i3-8109U/8GB RAM/120GB SSD/ WIN10 on eBay that I have my eye on. Given the discussion above and the need to update the NUC8's HDMI to allow HD audio pass through, should I go for this NUC8 or should I look for a newer version. Also, if I do go for this NUC8, is the BEK version compatible with the setup recommended by @HomerJAU?