Yes, because we think we live in an advanced technological society but really we are not when it comes to many things. Our streaming with our company we use is done through a composite to usb connection through a computer at this time. For a composite connection the picture is actually pretty good but not like I would like it. The other thing is that if you want and HD stream you will need a pretty good upload speed and the people watching it will need a pretty good download speed. At least in our part of the country that is far and few of the people that can get that. So, that is why I am not using the HDMI output. I do record the games in HD on an SD card for other purposes but no HDMI out for streaming.