Iplaynaked
Maybe the reviewers notes you posted were talking to the masses and not the higher end AV buyers? it makes sense to me that they were, by and large, accounting for those who have bought DVD & CD players well under the $200 marks and possibly even less. Given then their usually much more expensive AV reciever's DACs would then be readily more capable of processing digital signals.
Given even simple costs a single cable type interfgace, if good performance can be had from it, seems both the economical and wisest choice.
I have since played with various connections to the receiver via coax analog & optical, and realized such marginal differences with none being that night and day diff, I have just kept the HDMI connections to those items possessing such ins & outs. Analog elsewhere.
Due to the info at the time or point of purchase, I looked for HDMI explicitly for use as my sole AV HT interface. Primarily for costs and ease of connectivity.
Naturally the additional aspect of upsampling SD video to higher resolutions too, which I've since found out isn't the end all be all I thought perhaps it should be. But it's not bad either. Just not a significant enough aspect for a buying decision to be made upon, for there is darned little difference in image sharpness or color vividness by their said escalation. Also too the higher res audio carried on 1.3a is attractive too. This last feature might well be improved upon using analog cabling for audio at least.
In each case though I want to point out the 'bottleneck' as it were remains the processor (AV receiver or player), and it's doubtful to me the use of analog cabling will severely increase performance with todays HD capable devices.
it will however, severely increase costs. Eight times or even six times more just for audio.
I'm not motivated to alter the interfaces to other digital ones, for audio, nor to analog for video. What I'm getting via HDMI now is definitely good enough in both instances for the theater experience to be most involving. IHMO
My sole use of analog cables is for connections to outboard amps, sub, and speakers. I am going to add one RCA composite video from a VHS tape deck to the AV reciever only, as the rec allows such video to be passed along onto the HDMI output cable and then out to the projector.
It may well be otherwise for some, but I feel the mention previously of current digital processing is greatly improved
over past efforts. so much so I'm pretty comfortable with sticking to the one cable 'HDMI' fix.
Maybe the reviewers notes you posted were talking to the masses and not the higher end AV buyers? it makes sense to me that they were, by and large, accounting for those who have bought DVD & CD players well under the $200 marks and possibly even less. Given then their usually much more expensive AV reciever's DACs would then be readily more capable of processing digital signals.
Given even simple costs a single cable type interfgace, if good performance can be had from it, seems both the economical and wisest choice.
I have since played with various connections to the receiver via coax analog & optical, and realized such marginal differences with none being that night and day diff, I have just kept the HDMI connections to those items possessing such ins & outs. Analog elsewhere.
Due to the info at the time or point of purchase, I looked for HDMI explicitly for use as my sole AV HT interface. Primarily for costs and ease of connectivity.
Naturally the additional aspect of upsampling SD video to higher resolutions too, which I've since found out isn't the end all be all I thought perhaps it should be. But it's not bad either. Just not a significant enough aspect for a buying decision to be made upon, for there is darned little difference in image sharpness or color vividness by their said escalation. Also too the higher res audio carried on 1.3a is attractive too. This last feature might well be improved upon using analog cabling for audio at least.
In each case though I want to point out the 'bottleneck' as it were remains the processor (AV receiver or player), and it's doubtful to me the use of analog cabling will severely increase performance with todays HD capable devices.
it will however, severely increase costs. Eight times or even six times more just for audio.
I'm not motivated to alter the interfaces to other digital ones, for audio, nor to analog for video. What I'm getting via HDMI now is definitely good enough in both instances for the theater experience to be most involving. IHMO
My sole use of analog cables is for connections to outboard amps, sub, and speakers. I am going to add one RCA composite video from a VHS tape deck to the AV reciever only, as the rec allows such video to be passed along onto the HDMI output cable and then out to the projector.
It may well be otherwise for some, but I feel the mention previously of current digital processing is greatly improved
over past efforts. so much so I'm pretty comfortable with sticking to the one cable 'HDMI' fix.