question about hdmi

[sullic82]

I just bought a hdtv and i want to get the best picture possible with my dvd player. My dvd player is a KOSS and doesnt have an HDMI conection. Are there any cable out there that offer A/V to HDMI?

 

[downriver]

I bought one of these:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000EDK8V4/ref=dp_cp_ob_title_2/102-7505665-6407306

And am pretty happy with it. It does a real good job upconverting home-made discs from my Panasonic recorder and an even better job on store-bought DVD's!!!

Cables NOT included!

 

[JimK2]

I just bought a hdtv and i want to get the best picture possible with my dvd player. My dvd player is a KOSS and doesnt have an HDMI conection. Are there any cable out there that offer A/V to HDMI?

HDMI is digital, all other outputs are analog. Component out with progressive out is about the best you can do and a lot depends on how well your tv does the up
conversion.

A dvd player with hdmi will do the up conversion internaly and the better ones uses the faroudja chip

 

[griz_fan]

I just bought a hdtv and i want to get the best picture possible with my dvd player. My dvd player is a KOSS and doesnt have an HDMI conection. Are there any cable out there that offer A/V to HDMI?

Short answer: no. Longer answer, there's not point in it because the signal is already degraded, converting to HDMI would just a be a different mechanism to carry a degraded signal, and the signal would degrade even further.

Besides, a decent upscaling DVD player doesn't have to break the bank. There are plenty out there for less that $100. check out http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/volume_7_3/dvd-benchmark-introduction-9-2000.html for some tests to see what players work best. In any event, even a decent progressive scan DVD player that doesn't support HDMI or upscaling would most likely be a HUGE step up from that Koss.

 

[sullic82]

Here's a question, would i be better of getting monster compontent cables or to get a upconvert dvd player with no monster cables?

 

[Jordan420]

Get a decent(meaning good not the cheapest) upconverting DVD player & an HDMI cable from monoprice

http://www.monoprice.com/products/subdepartment.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10231&style=

Monster component cables are not going to help that KOSS player at all

 

[sullic82]

How about this player??

http://reviews.cnet.com/Panasonic_DVD_S52S_DVD_player/4505-6463_7-31975705.html

 

[downriver]

How about this player??

http://reviews.cnet.com/Panasonic_DVD_S52S_DVD_player/4505-6463_7-31975705.html

That Panny is not an upconverting player. Check this one out:

http://reviews.cnet.com/Sony_DVP_NS75H/4505-6463_7-31814740.html?tag=lst

Or this one:

http://reviews.cnet.com/Oppo_DV_970HD/4505-6463_7-32065061.html?tag=lst

They are both C-net editor's top choices!

 

[sullic82]

Im actually trying to find one under $100 probably between $50-$80.

 

[griz_fan]

How about this player??

http://reviews.cnet.com/Panasonic_DVD_S52S_DVD_player/4505-6463_7-31975705.html

As I mentioned in another thread, this is a good player, I have the black version and have been quite happy with the 720p out over HDMI. for the price, I think it is a good performer.

 

[Jordan420]

What tv did you buy?
You may or may not know that many HDTV's will upconvert the incoming signal to the tv's native scan rate 720p or 1080i or 1080p.

Your TV may do a better job of upconverting your dvd's than your player.

make sure you can return the DVD player you buy, but since you are curently using a $30 dvd player anything will look as good or better than what you have now.

Check out the secrets of home theater dvd shoot out for the perfomance vs. price you can live with in a DVD player

Edit-fixed links

Here is the explanation of the tests

http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/volume_7_3/dvd-benchmark-introduction-9-2000.html

And here is the custom search

http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/cgi-bin/shootout.cgi

 

[sullic82]

Here is the TV I just got. http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2007788,00.asp

 

[Jordan420]

Looks like a nice TV, built in tuner & pc mag says it has good video processing.

The player you linked earlier should be fine, this place has it for $68.

http://www.beachaudio.com/product_i...s52s&utm_content=AD_ID&utm_campaign=shopzilla

 

[sblasl]

Check out the secrets of home theater dvd shoot out for the performance vs. price you can live with in a DVD player

http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/cgi-bin/shootout.cgi?function=search&articles=all

Link is not working, is a subscription required?

 

[Jordan420]

Sorry, no sub required, but I linked to all the results which require tons of pics to load. Try this for the explanation of the tests

http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/volume_7_3/dvd-benchmark-introduction-9-2000.html

& this for the search

http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/cgi-bin/shootout.cgi

The tests were conducted by very knowledgable people some of whom post on sat guys, Stacey Spears, Guy Kuo(Head of Ovation Software, Author of Avia), Don Munsil, John Kotches, Kris Deering, Joe Kane(President of Joe Kane Productions, and designer of Video Essentials), and others, please see the full list here

http://www.hometheaterhifi.com/volume_7_3/dvd-benchmark-introduction-9-2000.html

Jordan