12 VDC Blu-Ray Player
I was at Best Buy today looking for a Blu-Ray player for my Study and found a Sony Model BSP-S1500 on sale for $69.99. I thought that for that price why not. When I opened the box, much to my surpri...
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pnichols wrote:
Component cables can carry fairly high definition analog images ... they just can't carry any audio at the same time. HDMI cables of course carry both ... for simpler hookups.
Our 58 inch 16:9 widescreen home television does not have HDMI inputs at all. The Blu-Ray DVD player feeding it via component cables provides beautiful high definition images, we just have to run the additional audio cables between the Blu-Ray player and the TV.
Not always is newer better ... sometimes newer is just another way of taking your money again. ;)
DVD and Bluray are digital formats for video and sound. Using component cables even HD means you convert the video signal to analog, transmit to TV, then convert to digital again. Every conversion loses some quality. Is it perceived? Maybe not, but I would not call HDMI/component the same.
