Arthur Conan Doyle never wrote "Elementary, my dear Watson". Perhaps it derives from some derived work, and any extant copyright claim to the phrase rests in the hands of some other estate.
Depends on what you mean by a router. If you get your internet from a cable box, perhaps some next generation variant of that box will offer to bridge its HDMI 1.4 connection to its CAT5 and 802.11n subnetworks. DisplayPort will worm its way into people's homes on a similar basis.
Still means that you have two years to enjoy a cheapie bluray player and video rentals. Or, if the Image Constraint Token isn't retroactive, two years to buy bluray discs that will still play at 1080i years into the future.
Why is this, does your TV have a network switch in it?
Nope. The only thing that separates my TV from a plain old display is the ATSC/NTSC tuner. I do use the tuner, in lieu of a DVR. Frankly, I'm not about to replace it, but some TVs do in fact connect to the internet, or to home servers. Just think about it-- in five years, the average family of four will have a half dozen youtube clients--on disc players, in receivers, in televisions and, yes, on PCs. The prospect is indeed thrilling.
...can't display motion pictures published by six American companies.
I have two Region 2 discs-- Riget and Riget 2. The latter was never offered for sale in North America. I'd really like to see Un long dimanche de fiançailles in HD, but the current disk in locked to Region B. Import restrictions swing both ways.
It also makes a very fat cable that is generally harder to bury somewhere so that it isn't visible.
Nonsense. Suppose I connect a bluray player to my receiver. The analogue route would involve 3 75 ohm video cables, and six analogue cables, A professional quality video connection would probably involve RG-6 coaxial cables, preferably with BNC connectors. Think CATV lead-- quarter inch think. A comparably over-engineered audio solution would probably involve balanced interconnects with XLR connectors.
The digital route would be one HDMI cable. It doesn't have to be all that thick-- perhaps the diameter of a single RG-6 cable. If you wanted to you could probably get a flat version with similar transmission characteristics.
My bluray player has an ethernet port-- for downloading firmware, bd-live, youtube, pandora, and video on demand. AppleTVs have ethernet port for connecting to the Apple Store, and streaming from various computers. Internet Radio is occasionally found on computers. So, the idea of incorporating ethernet into HDMI-1.4 makes some sense-- one less rats nest of cables to worry about. Unfortunately, it's only 100 MB/s. Sure, they could all communicate using wireless, but that's not a very efficient network.
And therein lies the problem. Plain old Cat5 cable isn't shielded, so the signal might not propagate along a long cable. The audiophile cable is only 1.5m, as is the cable that is supplied with the player. If you needed a longer cable, you'd need some sort of specification.
The arrows, iirc, have something to do with the grounding--perhaps to avoid ground loops?
Digital may be digital, but they player's still spinning a disc. Its still has a fan. A audiophile company might be able to reduce the operating noise of its player. I'm not sure that such improvements are really worth thousands of dollars, but a beefed up chassis is still worth something.
(I have a Sony ES SACD player I picked up for a song. It's essentially a rebadge of the plain old Sony, with the addition of a headphone jack, a heftier chassis, and a marginally cleaner power supply. I had an opportunity to inspect the player it was based on, and IMHO the controls of the ES player just feel a bit better. Is it worth a $250 premium? No... but then, I didn't pay the premium.)
The Cable that Denon supplies with its universal players is 1.5 m. The ultra premium cable is also 1.5 m. But what if you wanted to connect a player over a longer distance-- say 15m? It would be nice to have a firm spec so that you could properly source a cable that will sync.
You own a high end TV/receiver and care a great deal about quality. In the case you hook the Blu-ray player up using HDMI. Reason is HDMI gives you the best signal. However in this case, the player isn't doing anything other than nabbing the data and passing it along. The analogue conversion happens in other units. So again, the quality isn't important. Your receiver's high quality DACs will handle the audio, the Blu-ray player will just send them data.
Some high quality receivers/prepros actually predate HDMI.
I have both an oppo 971H dvd player and a samsung bdp1600 bluray player. On DVDs, the Oppo produces a noticeably better picture than the samsung. It's particularly good at deinterlacing, though to be fair, I sold off my DVD of Outland, which used to be my torture test for video filters.
The Oppo bluray player is $499, which might explain why I've made do with the Samsung.
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Arthur Conan Doyle never wrote "Elementary, my dear Watson". Perhaps it derives from some derived work, and any extant copyright claim to the phrase rests in the hands of some other estate.
Depends on what you mean by a router. If you get your internet from a cable box, perhaps some next generation variant of that box will offer to bridge its HDMI 1.4 connection to its CAT5 and 802.11n subnetworks. DisplayPort will worm its way into people's homes on a similar basis.
Still means that you have two years to enjoy a cheapie bluray player and video rentals. Or, if the Image Constraint Token isn't retroactive, two years to buy bluray discs that will still play at 1080i years into the future.
Why is this, does your TV have a network switch in it?
Nope. The only thing that separates my TV from a plain old display is the ATSC/NTSC tuner. I do use the tuner, in lieu of a DVR. Frankly, I'm not about to replace it, but some TVs do in fact connect to the internet, or to home servers. Just think about it-- in five years, the average family of four will have a half dozen youtube clients--on disc players, in receivers, in televisions and, yes, on PCs. The prospect is indeed thrilling.
There's always the HDFury.
High definition audio formats (such as Dolby MAT, DTS HD, all BD formats,etc.)
What's Dolby MAT?
It's a simple board swap.
How is the SPDIF signal encoded? 4 channel PCM?
Some TVs connect directly to the internet
...can't display motion pictures published by six American companies.
I have two Region 2 discs-- Riget and Riget 2. The latter was never offered for sale in North America. I'd really like to see Un long dimanche de fiançailles in HD, but the current disk in locked to Region B. Import restrictions swing both ways.
If you plan to use Eyefinity with three monitors, at least one of them must be a display port monitor.
It also makes a very fat cable that is generally harder to bury somewhere so that it isn't visible.
Nonsense. Suppose I connect a bluray player to my receiver. The analogue route would involve 3 75 ohm video cables, and six analogue cables, A professional quality video connection would probably involve RG-6 coaxial cables, preferably with BNC connectors. Think CATV lead-- quarter inch think. A comparably over-engineered audio solution would probably involve balanced interconnects with XLR connectors.
The digital route would be one HDMI cable. It doesn't have to be all that thick-- perhaps the diameter of a single RG-6 cable. If you wanted to you could probably get a flat version with similar transmission characteristics.
9 cables versus one. Your choice.
TOSLink should be enough.
My bluray player has an ethernet port-- for downloading firmware, bd-live, youtube, pandora, and video on demand. AppleTVs have ethernet port for connecting to the Apple Store, and streaming from various computers. Internet Radio is occasionally found on computers. So, the idea of incorporating ethernet into HDMI-1.4 makes some sense-- one less rats nest of cables to worry about. Unfortunately, it's only 100 MB/s. Sure, they could all communicate using wireless, but that's not a very efficient network.
Nonsense. I can plug my bluary player into my HDTV with YCbCr cables. I choose not to because an HDMI cable is cheaper.
Before VGA, CGA/EGA was good for 6 years.
What the hell were you doing with an IBM PC Compatible before 1987? There were much better machines out there.
Inferior to what? HDMI has its share of flaws.
And therein lies the problem. Plain old Cat5 cable isn't shielded, so the signal might not propagate along a long cable. The audiophile cable is only 1.5m, as is the cable that is supplied with the player. If you needed a longer cable, you'd need some sort of specification.
The arrows, iirc, have something to do with the grounding--perhaps to avoid ground loops?
Digital may be digital, but they player's still spinning a disc. Its still has a fan. A audiophile company might be able to reduce the operating noise of its player. I'm not sure that such improvements are really worth thousands of dollars, but a beefed up chassis is still worth something.
(I have a Sony ES SACD player I picked up for a song. It's essentially a rebadge of the plain old Sony, with the addition of a headphone jack, a heftier chassis, and a marginally cleaner power supply. I had an opportunity to inspect the player it was based on, and IMHO the controls of the ES player just feel a bit better. Is it worth a $250 premium? No... but then, I didn't pay the premium.)
The Cable that Denon supplies with its universal players is 1.5 m. The ultra premium cable is also 1.5 m. But what if you wanted to connect a player over a longer distance-- say 15m? It would be nice to have a firm spec so that you could properly source a cable that will sync.
You own a high end TV/receiver and care a great deal about quality. In the case you hook the Blu-ray player up using HDMI. Reason is HDMI gives you the best signal. However in this case, the player isn't doing anything other than nabbing the data and passing it along. The analogue conversion happens in other units. So again, the quality isn't important. Your receiver's high quality DACs will handle the audio, the Blu-ray player will just send them data.
Some high quality receivers/prepros actually predate HDMI.
UL isn't pointless. Would you buy a non UL certified Turkey Fryer?
Does ethernet use low voltage differential signaling?
I have both an oppo 971H dvd player and a samsung bdp1600 bluray player. On DVDs, the Oppo produces a noticeably better picture than the samsung. It's particularly good at deinterlacing, though to be fair, I sold off my DVD of Outland, which used to be my torture test for video filters.
The Oppo bluray player is $499, which might explain why I've made do with the Samsung.
AC is obviously unfamiliar with recent innovations in immigration law. GP post stands, as written.