Is hdmi a must have for home theater?


I have a yamaha DSP-A1 but i'm getting lossless thru RCA's with a sony bluray player. Am I still missing out??
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When given the choice to hook up something like a CD player, people tend to always go with toslink or a digital cable. As I understand, the main reason is to avoid interference?

Assuming you dont have HDMI, why do manufacturers use plain old RCA cables as an option for multichannel input? Why didnt they use 3 (or more) optical or digital cables instead?

Seems like by using RCA cables to hook up blu ray players, that we are regressing back to RCA cables and all the problems that current cable technologies have developed to combat them?