bogey780
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Re: Glad I bought
Component can do 1080i. In fact it's how many Xbox owners have their hooked up.
Component can't handle ICT which is a big problem if ever content makers decide to enable it.
HDMI is better if only that new receivers allow for simple switching which makes it so much easier to connect devices. Optical SPDIF can't handle uncompressed 5.1 LPCM which is a negative for audiophiles while HDMI 1.3 can.
Right now it all depends on what equipment you have. Eventually it'll be HDMI as everything is moving to support it. |
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cdru
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| said by bogey780  :HDMI is better if only that new receivers allow for simple switching which makes it so much easier to connect devices. The problem currently is that most receivers are just simple switches for HDMI. If you want a receiver that can actually extract the audio instead of having to get it via a separate feed, you are usually going to pay 2-3x the cost (presuming typical residential-grade equipment...higher end systems excluded).
If they could design an affordable receiver that would upconvert any input source into HDMI so that I have ONE input to send to my TV, I would be in heaven. As it stands now you have a HDMI for the DVD player, component for the gaming system, s-video for the satellite, composite for the VCR, coax for the OTA HD, etc. Too many connections.
Optical SPDIF can't handle uncompressed 5.1 LPCM which is a negative for audiophiles while HDMI 1.3 can. Not that I don't beleive you, but do you have a source for this? I can think of a technical reason why optical couldn't support it, other then content providers wanting to try to lock down and cripple the technology (e.g. HDCP)
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bogey780
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| Try the Onkyo TX-SR804. Cost around 650$ and does all that. I just plugged mine in yesterday and it works fine for going from component to HDMI and pulling the audio from the HDMI link.
The optical SPDIF issue is just one of standards. They support Dolby and DTS just fine but it can only send the signal compressed to the receiver for decoding. HDMI 1.3 allows for 7.1 uncompresed PCM.
I don't have a link to confirm this but I've been told this by many audiophiles as to why I can't get 5.1 PCM across my toslink. |
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cdru
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| said by bogey780 :The optical SPDIF issue is just one of standards. They support Dolby and DTS just fine but it can only send the signal compressed to the receiver for decoding. HDMI 1.3 allows for 7.1 uncompresed PCM. I don't have a link to confirm this but I've been told this by many audiophiles as to why I can't get 5.1 PCM across my toslink. I wonder if it's kind of like trying to get a 10mbit NIC to work at gigabit speeds. It's not that the fiber itself can't handle it, rather the receiver (or transmitter) is using a outdated technology that doesn't work fast enough.
Interesting none the less. Did not know that if that is indeed the case.
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