HDMI is not better than component? WTF

[gand41f]

Originally Posted by ground chuck

hold on a minute....i was using component cables on a 720p dlp a 2years ago and i switched to hdmi and the difference is night and day. i have comcast and after i switched cables all my hd channels came in in full screen not 4:3 witht the black bars on the side. the clarity was 100x better. maybe it is b/c my cable box supports hdmi, maybe not, either way hdmi cables are the way to go.

back then i didn't think that cables could make such a big difference, but they do.

That's not what the article is talking about. If you can't get HD signals on component because of HDCP, then yes, the difference is night and day. (Although I don't know that some cable boxes disallow HD channels on compenent.)

If you can get HD signals on component, the difference can be small or even negative (better on component). Depends on your equipment.

We're still in the nascent stage of this "high-definition" thing so lots of "common sense" don't always apply. Examples of statements that are not necessarily true:

• All-digital (HDMI/DVI) is better than digital-analog-digital (component)
• 120Hz TVs will show 1080p24 without judder
• Lossless compressed audio (Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD MA) sounds exactly the same as uncompressed audio
• 1080i60 and 1080p (24 or 60Hz) contain enough information from the original 1080p24 so they will look exactly the same

One can even write a small article on each and why they are not this way.

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gandalf