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Mil Mascaras	AVI to HDMI adapters	Lead	[-]
Jan 5 09 3:26 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I was considering the purchase of a blu-ray player last week assuming I had the necessary connections on my big screen. I bought my big screen back in '04 (50" Sony Grand WEGA) and apparently it was just prior to HDMI being a standard option on big screens. My monitor has only a DVI connection available (along with component, composite and s-video) and I've been told that in order to make the most of a blu-ray unit, I need to use HDMI. I found a HDMI-DVI adapter at Best Buy that the salesman said would be a seamless conversion to get a blu-ray player to work to its fullest on my big screen. Anyone have any experience or knowledge on this subject? I really don't want to go out and buy another big screen as I am very happy with my Sony - but I do want to upgrade to a blu-ray disc player. Is the adapter the best option? and will the picture be the same as if I actually had a HDMI connection installed on my big screen?
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Brent Gair		#1	[-]
Jan 5 09 10:47 PM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	I think you should be fine with your current set and you don't need HDMI or the DVI/HDMI adapter. A 50" Grand Vega from 2004 is likey a 1080i TV set. I don't know every Grand Vega, but a check online indicates a 2004 would be 1080i just as my 2003 51" Hitachi is 1080i. At that time, 1080i was the most common resolution for big sets. As such, you will get an excellent 1080i high def picture with COMPONENT CABLES. I have both an HD DVD player and Blu-ray player (a PS3) connected using component cables. HDMI is only a necessity if you have a 1080p TV set. You need HDMI to see 1080p but not for 1080i. 1080i goes through component just fine and looks great. The practical differences between 1080i and 1080p are minimal. Since your set can only display up to 1080i, you'd be wasting your money getting an HDMI cable and DVI adapter. Oh, they should work OK...but you don't need them. A "salesman at Best Buy" is about the most useless source of info. One problem is that these guys are working with new TV and Blu-ray technology that is barely two years old. they are used to 1080p TV sets and HDMI cables because that what they sell now. They don't understand the HDTVs that we bought 5 or 6 years ago.
Mil Mascaras		#2	[-]
Jan 6 09 12:20 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	Thanks Brent for your common sense answer. I wasn't aware that HDMI was only of benefit to 1080p monitors. Let me ask another question then: using component cables, does the blu-ray image look much better than a standard dvd player image using the same component cables?
Brent Gair		#3	[-]
Jan 6 09 12:38 AM Reply Quote More My Recent Posts	With HDMI now standard on all new TVs, folks don't understand that it's not an absolute necessity. They are certainly a convenient way to connect things...but not required in most cases. In fact, the current HDMI 1.3 standard was only finalized in 2006 as I recall. If it was really required, all of those "old" HDTVs wouldn't work with Blu-ray. There was, at one time, a belief that HDMI WOULD be needed for Blu-ray. The Blu-ray specification does ALLOW for the option of limiting output to HDMI only. But that option has not been implemented. In my opinion, in most cases, a Blu-ray image will look much better than a standard dvd using the same cables. The cables aren't really the issue. The simple math of the matter is that Blu-ray discs are authored with 6 times as much picture information as DVD. There are a couple of Blu-ray and High Defintion threads in the "Classic Horror on DVD" forum. You might need elbow pads because the discussion there can get a bit rough.

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