Wow - so I finally got a plasma and can't believe I've been wasting my life watching my poor old SDTV all these years! I am using component cables to connect my DVR/HD box to the tv, and it looks awesome, but was curious if HDMI would make a big difference (or noticeable at all). It's a 50" 720p display. Thanks to anyone who has an opinion on this.
won't make much of a difference so i wouldn't go out and buy the cable if you don't have one. Just make sure you are using component and not the regular a/v jacks
YES!
Also, buy an upconverting DVD player. Those players rescale the standard DVD to fit a widescreen TV and use an image processing algorithm to make your regular DVDs look almost as good as a blu-ray or HD DVD. I have a Sony DVD-NS77HB, and love it. I think it's $90 from circuit city. Totally worth the money.
Also, don't pay $80 for a 3' HDMI cable from worst buy. I get all mine off
. I think I got two 3' for $12.
MMHM wrote:
won't make much of a difference so i wouldn't go out and buy the cable if you don't have one. Just make sure you are using component and not the regular a/v jacks
Actually it will make a HUGE difference with the right TV. The component source is an analog version of the HDTV source. So there is some loss of quality. Not much, but still some loss. DVI and HDMI are the only two pure digital sources, so there is no loss at all. HDMI and DVI will also allow you to do 1080 progressive. Component will not.
As far as DVI and HDMI, the difference between the two is that HDMI is DVI with digital audio.
Thanks for the info - I think I may pick one up (I've seen them pretty cheap at various places around town) and give it a shot. I had heard there can be something loss with the component cables, and, if nothing else, it means a less cumbersome wire to connect to the TV.
I have a Samsung 42" plasma and cannot tell a difference b/w component and HDMI. I use HDMI just b/c it's less bulk.
However, if you do buy HDMI cables, get them cheap at monoprice or on eBay. They're ridiculous in the stores.
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