Do they have HDMI multiple ports yet?

[NoCalMike 0]

Well until the PS3 comes out, I don't have to worry anyway, but currently my DVD player plugs into my only HDMI slot, but I know the PS3(expensive version) will have an HDMI hookup as well. Anyone know if by November(unless they already currently have them) if they will have HDMI expansion ports available, or am I going to be stuck climbing behind the tv to switch out the HDMI plug when I go from PS3 to DVD?

 

Oh wait, if the PS3 plays DVDs and it is plugged into HDMI...then I guess I won't even have to use my other DVD player anyway....problem solved....I think....right?

[Mole 0]

Unless PS3 will only play Blu-Ray, but I don't know about that.

[Guest Princess Leena]

Blu-Ray will be able to play DVD. Or so they say.

[MarvinisaLunatic 0]

Newer tv models have mulitple HDMI ports..

 

HD-DVD is definitely backwards compatible with DVD but I dont know about Blu Ray.

[NoCalMike 0]

I know some of the TVs themselves have multiple HDMI ports, but I was thinking of external ports, like how they have switches for RCA cables where you can plug for inputs into it, labeled "1-4" and click the button for whichever one you want to use.

[Mole 0]

I was reading a review of Blu-Ray and it doesn't look like it has any HDMI ports:

 

http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/blu-ray/

 

Unless I am missing them.

 

EDIT: Errr, it is a Blu-Ray recorder, but still.

[CanadianGuitarist 0]

Where are HD-DVD available? I've never seen them, either the discs or the players.

 

Isn't a HDMI-input DVD equivalent, essentially, altho not true HD, to a HD-DVD anyway?

[MarvinisaLunatic 0]

Ive seen HD-DVDs at Best Buy but not any players. And Blockbuster Online is renting HD-DVD (and bluray when its out) movies as well.

 

As far as the 4 in one HDMI switchers, I know I've seen them online but I think they are too techy to be in any stores (and expensive since if I remember right it was over $100).

 

As more devices come out that require HDMI, you'll see the switchers pop up because there are a ton of HDTVs with 1 (or even no) HDMI ports. And probably some HDMI-DVI adapters as well since a lot of people are stuck with DVI instead (like myself). DVI is as good as HDMI but it doesn't carry audio so you have to have seperate audio cables, and HDMI has more encryption or something of the like..

[NoCalMike 0]

Ok yeah I found some models online. Still to expensive though. The inconvenience of plugging in and out a cable is not quite worth $200.00. I am sure the price will drop fast once more people have HDMI/DVI needs.

[CanadianGuitarist 0]

Another question about HD-DVD/HDMI?

 

Now, about a week ago, we started carrying HD DVD's. Our department manager Kenny wrote down in our communication book "These will not play on a traditional DVD, only a HD DVD player, which we do not have!"

 

On last night's truck was a new model HDMI input DVD. I asked Dan, the guy I was working with,what would happen if I put one of the aforementioned HD DVD's in this new RCA HDMI DVD player. He assured me it would work. Now, I tried to explain that HD DVD players and HDMI were not the same, that HDMI converted a NTSC DVD. He said it didn't make a difference.

 

Is that true? I maintained it wasn't, that the two machines were different. Dan still said that the HD DVD would work in an HDMI DVD player, but, and I don't want to slander him to badly in case he was right, but he didn't seem to know what he was talking about, basically being a yes man.

 

Another variable in Dan's favour, is that we've actually had one model of HDMI for a while now, a Samsung. But we have not sold ONE in the year we've had it. Is it possible Dan was right, and Kenny said we didn't have them because he wasn't aware of the Samsung?

 

So, what happens if I load an HD DVD into an HDMI? Will it upconvert somehow? Not read the disc altogether? Some third thing?

 

Acronym count:25

[MarvinisaLunatic 0]

HD-DVD discs will not work on any standard DVD player out on the market currently, upconverting or not..

 

Oh, and I saw my first HD-DVD player at Best Buy earlier in the week and the thing is huge. The HD-DVD cases are slick looking though.

 

Oh, and to throw another wrench into the equation..Sony is equiping its PS3 with HDMI 1.3 which has a higher bandwith and support for more colors. Fortunately, its backwards compatible with regular HDMI.

[Mole 0]

How was the picture? Did it look like a movie that would be on HBOHD? Or was it better?

[MarvinisaLunatic 0]

How was the picture? Did it look like a movie that would be on HBOHD? Or was it better?

 

They didnt have it hooked up..the tv over top of it was being fed that same signal as all the other tvs. Talk about stupid. The picture quality would have to be better than anything you get on cable because its full bandwith no compression (which is why the capcity of the discs needed to be so large). Cable squeezes HD bandwith with some compression and satellite pretty much squeezes it enough to get juice if it were a fruit.

[Mole 0]

I was at BB today too and they just had the player with the rest of the DVD players sitting there. I didn't see any big signs advertising it or anything. I did see some Blu-Ray signs though.

 

I read somewhere that BB is pushing Blu-Ray more than HDDVD. Even though the early verisons of BR have been horrible. Sony is having trouble with the discs and the early reviews of the movies haven't been so good. Here are the reviews.

[CanadianGuitarist 0]

HD-DVD discs will not work on any standard DVD player out on the market currently, upconverting or not..

 

So what would happen were I to put an HD DVD in a standard or HDMI DVD? Would it simply not read?

[Mole 0]

Yes.

 

All the HDMI DVD player does it upconvert the DVD to 480p/720p/1080i. HD DVD uses a blue-violet 405 nm laser to read information from the disc (DVDs use red 650 nm lasers).

[CanadianGuitarist 0]

My ECW just received, on a whim, a couple 32" LCD HDTV's.

 

They claim to recieve both NTSC and digital signals.

 

Is a digital signal, in essence, the same as HDTV? Is the inegrated digital tuner what receives ATSC signals?

 

Basically what I'm asking - is the integrated digital tuner, ultimately, the major difference between an HD and an HD Ready Tv?

[Guest guerillagenius]

My ECW just received, on a whim, a couple 32" LCD HDTV's.

 

They claim to recieve both NTSC and digital signals.

 

Is a digital signal, in essence, the same as HDTV? Is the inegrated digital tuner what receives ATSC signals?

 

Basically what I'm asking - is the integrated digital tuner, ultimately, the major difference between an HD and an HD Ready Tv?

 

 

Yes HD Ready means you must buy a seperate tuner to be able to view HD programming. HD has a tuner built in so all you need is the channels available.

[CanadianGuitarist 0]

Not to sound like a tool, but you didn't quite answer it.

 

Is an Integrated Digital Tuner what makes the difference between an HD and HD ready?

 

Is an ATSC tuner and Integrated Digital Tuner the same thing?

[Guest guerillagenius]

found via google

 

http://www.answers.com/topic/digital-tuner

 

digital tuner

A digital tuner is a tuning device that allows a television or radio set to receive signals via airwaves, satellite, or cable and translates them into a signal the device can display. A tuner is useful for receiving digital broadcasts over the air or via satellite and displaying it on a high definition television or standard definition television digital television set. Tuners are also used in radio receivers to tune in radio stations digitally (0.1 MHz increments in the US), as opposed to analog dialing. Radio signals can also be received by digital radio tuners, which receive audio signals via satellite.

 

 

ATSC tuner

A digital television (DTV) tuner in a TV set.

[Mole 0]

http://www.ramelectronics.net/html/comp-vi...CFQKiHgodT3gwuw

 

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