Do I Need HDMI When Buying a New HD CRT TV?
I'm buying my first HD TV to replace my old 4:3 NEC 51cm which is now about 20 yrs old... The features on it are:
-Panasonic CRT -76cm 16:9 -100Hz -1080i 576p All the PAL HD CRT's here in Australia don't seem to have HDMI inputs (if you know of one that does please let me know), only the Plasmas & LCD seem to have that option. I've seen many HD CRT sets in the US that have HDMI inputs but none here in PAL land. Do I really need a HDMI input on a HD CRT TV? The set i'm thinking of buying has a 2 x DVD inputs & a S-VHS input, is that good enough? I'm not super fussy when it comes to my home TV but will not having HDMI inputs limit me much? Thanks in advance... |
If you want your HDTV to be compatible with the new crop of HD-DVD players due out this year, you'll want HDMI.
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will the HD DVD players have a normal 3 plug DVD output also? And if so would it be a high def output through that plug?
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When you say "3 plug" do you mean component?
Specifics have not been released for these new HiDef DVD players, so whether they'll have component output is a mystery. However, a lot has been written about DRM (Digital Rights Management) and the "speculation" is that it will NOT send a high-def signal over anything except HDMI because the signal is protected. Hope this helps. |
I believe that there will be component outputs on the forthcoming HD-Players.
However--if one is playing a "protected" DVD--which means all forthcoming commercial dvd's--the component output will be restricted to regular old 480p. I imagine, HD discs that are not "protected" will be full HD from the component outs---such as self authored [from DVD Studio Pro or iDVD-HD or whatever in the future]will play. |
thanks for the info,
why is the content protected from the HDMI output but not the component output? |
This might be of interest: http://www.hdmi.org/consumer/faq.asp
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Found this link from another site...very interesting and pertinent to whether or not you need HDMI on your HDTV set.
http://www.videobusiness.com/article/CA6300812.html |
Great Links, thanks guys...
Do you believe the following statement in the article is true?... "Many so-called HDTV sets are actually capable of displaying only 720 lines of resolution, regardless of the source, so viewers would not be getting full high-def anyway, even over digital connections. Once the analog image is down-sampled to 540 lines, moreover, players will be permitted to use a signal processor to “up-convert” it to 720 or 1,080 lines. Although such up-conversion does not restore the detail lost through down-sampling, it does improve overall picture sharpness." It kinda sucks for me because I don't want to buy a Plasma or LCD right now just for the HDMI input as I prefer the picture on CRT's but no one will put a HDMI input on a CRT! |
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