We should all be aware that the days of using analog outputs of Blu-ray players to get around the HDMI HDCP protection is coming to an end.
Any new Blu-Ray player announced after January 1st 2011 will only output HD video via HDMI — players that started shipping last year can still be sold until the end of this year though. If you just love component video, you might think you’ll be able to get a player today and continue to enjoy it for years to come, but that may not work out either. The studios also have an Image Constraint Token (ICT) which when set on a title will tell every and all Blu-ray players to down convert analog output to 540p. The only reprieve is that if it is set on a title, it must be marked on the box, and of course it can’t be retroactively set (any title you own now will continue to play exactly the same way it does on your existing players)
Extron has a White Paper that explains all of this in more detail. I’ll post a link to that when I can.