Xbox360: Component or VGA?

[figgie]

Its a very easy concept to grasp, your HDMI goes into your reciever, then to your projector. This allows for you to connect multiple HDMI devices to the reciever and have one output to your projector.

Typical, someone who is setting up a home theatre system will use the highest quality connection as a base line for buying hardware for the system. So if you have an HDMI projector or a TV, and a DVD player, satelite, or cable box with HDMI outputs, why would you not buy a reciever that has HDMI switching?

simple...

because not all recievers have them.

Hell i think Lexicon is JUST starting to make them available in the MC-12 lineup. I know Theta just released thier module for the casablanca line.

BTW HDMI is not the best

as a matter of fact

http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/forum/showthread.php?p=20160#post20160

enjoy

 

[Rtstrider]

Component is better than VGA or DVI. I think HDMI is even better than component.

The only difference bettween HDMI and DVI is that HDMI carries audio along with video while separating the colors...DVI just separates the colors....

 

[Draax]

simple...

because not all recievers have them.

Hell i think Lexicon is JUST starting to make them available in the MC-12 lineup. I know Theta just released thier module for the casablanca line.

BTW HDMI is not the best

as a matter of fact

http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/forum/showthread.php?p=20160#post20160

enjoy

Thats why you set a baseline for connections when setting up a home theatre. In addition with a reciever with HDMI switching, all the problems in that article do not happen.

 

[figgie]

Thats why you set a baseline for connections when setting up a home theatre. In addition with a reciever with HDMI switching, all the problems in that article do not happen.

did you even read the link i posted?? Has NOTHING to do with switching

In discussion with some industry engineers, I found that there are some problems popping up with the adaptation of the new HDMI standard. Here is what was discussed:

(1) Some cable TV boxes with HDMI out are not delivering any picture to displays with HDMI inputs.

(2) The current HDMI plug appears not to be as sturdy as anticipated, and there may be a change next year in the design of the plug, and the new plug would not fit in current HDMI sockets.

(3) If you have an HDMI source such as a DVD player, and connect it to your display via HDMI, you may not be able to get 5.1 digital bitstreams to come out of the coaxial or Toslink digital output of the player at the same time as digital video and audio out of the HDMI output.

(4) HDMI is a two-way digital communication, and some displays send a handshake signal to the DVD player that permanently messes up the player's ability to output digital video through its HDMI jack.

(5) HDMI v 1.1 is already hitting the shelves, with v 1.2 on the way, and v 1.3 in the next couple of years (v 1.3 will deliver higher res 5.1 digital audio). What will be the backward compatibility of these versions?

In my own situation, using a DirecTV satellite box with HDMI out to an LCD TV with HDMI in, when I turn off the TV, the satellite box crashes. I have to unplug the satellite box and then plug it back in. I have not solved this problem, except by switching to some other input besides HDMI before turning the TV off. Then, when I turn the TV back on, I switch to the HDMI input for viewing.

I will try and get some engineers to input possible answers to these problems here in the forum.

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so what does switching have to do with crashing a sat box? I will save you the reply. Nothing. HDMI has been bs standard that was rushed and now they are seeing the issues. Meaning it is far from the best and as it sits it is a catastrophe. Crash a box because of a connector.. sounds like Bill Gates in his Win95 demo.

 

[Tetrahedron]

Its a very easy concept to grasp, your HDMI goes into your reciever, then to your projector. This allows for you to connect multiple HDMI devices to the reciever and have one output to your projector.

Typical, someone who is setting up a home theatre system will use the highest quality connection as a base line for buying hardware for the system. So if you have an HDMI projector or a TV, and a DVD player, satelite, or cable box with HDMI outputs, why would you not buy a reciever that has HDMI switching?

hmmm maybe so

but my projector has HDMI, VGA, 2 x Component, S-video and Composite

so why do i need to this? My PC, Xbox, ps2 and soon xb360 will all hook into my projector without the need for switching.. so I fail to see how you think not using HDMI switching is ghetto.

 

[Draax]

In your case you dont have to worry about switching connections. HDMI switching is useful to me as I have one HDMI input on my TV, but my HDTV cable box, and DVD player both have HDMI outputs. If I were to not route the HDMI through the reciever, I would have to change which one I wanted plugged in constantly, or down grade the quality of one of them.

Switching connectors at the back of your home theatre, when you want to use a different source is ghetto.

 

[Tetrahedron]

In your case you dont have to worry about switching connections. HDMI switching is useful to me as I have one HDMI input on my TV, but my HDTV cable box, and DVD player both have HDMI outputs. If I were to not route the HDMI through the reciever, I would have to change which one I wanted plugged in constantly, or down grade the quality of one of them.

ah i see your point.