Hdmi To Component Converter

[nang3]

  F6 UTE said:

  nang3 said:

mate there virtually will no noticeable difference between a decent set of quality component cables and a HDMI cable, maybe if you could split a screen in half with 1 half comp and 1 hdmi you could notice but otherwise I doubt it..

Hdmi is good though cause 1 cable does everything instead of 4 !!!

Does your TV display 1080p, or downscale to 1080i??

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Big fat hairy bollox

A very noticeable difference in picture quality!!!!!

I noticed a big difference just going up a model in my Harmon Kardon DVD player. Then to HDMI was a big jump again..

Next your gonna tell me NTSC is just as good

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im yet to hook up anything in my theatre room (8months so fcking far, f*ck renos!! haha) so I dont have 1st hand comparison experience, but ive trawled the web and read both variations of opinions..

I could see a HDMI cable being better quality on a HDMI equipped 1080p capable display, but not a 60" LCD rear pro without HDMI?????

which HK dvd player did you get?? im after one to match my HK receiver but havent checked any out yet - does it upscale??

[Flukey]

As I understand it there are two advantages to HDMI:

Its a digital cable

It transmits audio as well as video.

Enlightning hey

[XRT8U]

ok so at the end of the days is this converter worth the $250 or not!??

[Robit28]

I would save the money and put it towards a tv with HDMI in the future.

Rob.

[aiboart]

  XRT8U said:

ok so at the end of the days is this converter worth the $250 or not!??

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No.

The point about HDMI is that the signal is digital all the way from the storage media to the display's processor. (Some may argue that the point about HDMI is the copy protection...)

You can let the DVD player do the conversion to analogue or you can send the converter a (HDMI) digital signal from the DVD player and it will do the conversion to analogue.

In both cases, you are still feeding an analogue signal into the TV.

Further, the DVD player, especially a high quality DVD player is likely to do a far better job of the D-A conversion than the eBay box.

Regards,

aa

[xr6]

Just remember that there are a number of HDMI versions. I understand that up to about a year ago, TVs with HDMI inputs did not include HDCP (HD copy protection). So they won't play back HD content from a Xbox 360 or PS3.

Can anyone tell me what resolution Xbox 360 games are - is it HD?

I'd wait if I were you. TVs keep getting cheaper and maybe the dust will settle on the whole HD content thing in the next year or so.

[Skooby]

Most 360 games are at 720p