HDMI Scaling.. I'm pissed!!!!

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Originally Posted by msnoopy22

The saleman told me that say if I would run my Satelite (DISHNETWORK) to my AV RECEIVER via HDMI, that the receiver wouldn't upconvert the signal thru HDMI to 1080p. He said if I wanted it to go up to 1080p I would have to run it thru the component cable. He then went on to say that if I wanted audio I would need to run it thru Digital Coax or Digital Optical.

In essence, he told me if I was watching a standard def. signal say like MTV. I need to run component and the Digital optical. I thought it was bull. He even brought out a chart with HDMI pass thru saying that the HDMI 720p signal will never convert up to a 1080p signal by using the HDMI. He went on to tell me if I wanted a blu-ray type picture I would be wasting my money on the receivers that I was looking at.

So he's just full of it, right?

what tv do you have, most tv's will scale all sources to their native resolution through hdmi. This means that if you have a 1080p tv if you have your cable box connected through hdmi you will be getting a 1080p image no matter what. Now will sd signals looks any better being scaled to 1080p, ehhhh ya but it wont look high def. Now as far as i know cable boxes and sat boxes will pass the audio through hdmi so you will not need a seperate audio connection. Lets say though that the cable/sat box doesnt pass audio through hdmi and you do need a seperate connection for audio, that fact will not change if you spend $500 or $5000 on a receiver. So the guy is just trying to upsell you.