I bought a Sony 40W3000 on Black Friday from Sears. I see it has the ability to use HDMI 1.3 cable. Would I be able to make use of this type of HDMI cable? I have a first generation SONY Upconverting dvd player and a cheapo Cyberhome upconverting dvd player. Can I use this HDMI 1.3 cable or does the upconverting dvd player have to be 1.3 capable?
BTW I'm on my second SONY 40W3000 lcd tv since the first one I bought had the infamous Sony clouding issue problem.
I'd appreciate any comments. Thanks in advance.
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About the only things using HDMI 1.3 are recent Blu-Ray DVD players and Sony HDV camcorders. Not much to it yet.
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Originally Posted by edDV
I guess the HDMI 1.3 cable I already received from monoprice.com will have to wait until I can afford a Blu-Ray DVD player. By that time that happens they'll be up to HDMI 4.0! -
Originally Posted by edDV
I've ordered an Oppo 980, which also has all of the connection options (though I believe it only upscales over HDMI also, unlike the 970), so that will be another test for this. Just posting this in case there may be something else I'm overlooking, and I hope this post is sufficiently on-topic for the thread.When in Las Vegas, don't miss the Pinball Hall of Fame Museum http://www.pinballmuseum.org/ -- with over 150 tables from 6+ decades of this quintessentially American art form. -
Originally Posted by Seeker47
The Moto boxes I've used require active HDCP on the TV for HDMI or DVI connections. All HDMI connections are supposed to support HDCP encryption but maybe that is the problem with the NAD.Recommends: Kiva.org - Loans that change lives.
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Originally Posted by edDV
The Moto box should have no involvement here at all, since what we're discussing is the direct connection between the NAD player and the Toshiba Regza LCD, via HDMI. Anyway, it's not the cable. I swapped cables, connecting HDMI-1 to the NAD, and HDMI-2 to the HD cable box. Result: the "regular" tv connection was then available on "2", and the NAD -- now on "1" -- returned "No Video Signal." So, I think we've narrowed it down to either a bad HDMI Out on the NAD, or your last idea. I don't think NAD would have included the HDMI option unless it worked -- at least in some setups. Am I following you correctly that some older tv (that had HDMI) might not require the HDCP encryption business, in tandem with the NAD, but because this current Regza model does, I won't be able to use it with HDMI ? I'd like to hear if NAD can suggest any fix for this. If not, I'd say this HDCP business is looking like a major pain in the rear.
In the meantime, the Oppo will be here shortly, and I'll see if there is any better luck with that., using HDMI. (One really nice thing about the Toshiba LCD is that they give you abundant connection options: 3 x HDMI, Compnent x 2, plus S-Video and Composite. I needed a switcher to accommodate everything on the older CRT set, which is unlikely to be an issue here.)When in Las Vegas, don't miss the Pinball Hall of Fame Museum http://www.pinballmuseum.org/ -- with over 150 tables from 6+ decades of this quintessentially American art form. -
All suspicion focuses on this NAD.
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One Question Answered, others arise . . . but now it is probably moot.
Originally Posted by edDV
What is then supposed to happen is that switching the tv input back to component (I had not removed the earlier cables) should bring up the "No Video Signal", and this was mostly the case, but I could still get the signal that way, occasionally. It is as though the NAD became confused. Lack of sound aside, I found the picture over HDMI to be relatively fuzzy / grainy, no matter how the NAD was set. The picture was definitely worse on HDMI than over Component -- a report I've also seen here a few times. The NAD's implementation of the picture upscaling feature was poor enough that I might have concluded that upscaling is just hollow hype, had I not had any other examples to compare it to.
The NAD 534 has a very solid build quality, rather favorable reviews, and I got it on the basis of a strong recommendation I read on VH. Now that I've hooked up the Oppo 980 in its place, I have to say I'm finding the performance and convenience of the Oppo to be clearly superior, in just about every respect. No problems over either connection, which can peacefully coexist, but now there will probably be no reason to leave the Component + audio cable set in place. The HDMI connection does look better. I haven't yet determined how much may be gained with the Oppo's upscaling (if anything), but at least it does not seem to be a minus. I've watched a couple movies bumped to 1080i (that's how the Toshiba 32HL67 is set at the moment, as I thought it looked a little bit better for certain things than at 720p), and thought they looked quite good. That would not have been the case at all with the NAD.When in Las Vegas, don't miss the Pinball Hall of Fame Museum http://www.pinballmuseum.org/ -- with over 150 tables from 6+ decades of this quintessentially American art form. -
The Toshiba 32HL67 is a 1366x768 progressive panel.
http://www.tacp.toshiba.com/dvd/product.asp?model=32HL67
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