HDMI DVD Player
Posted by: vampyriaerotica on 01 December 2006
Hi all,
I recently bought a Samsung 32" LCD and am now thinking of this Samsung DVD player to complement my new TV since my old CRT has build in DVD and left without DVD playback now and don't fancy using my PS2 due to the noisy fan!
I'm kind of out of touch in home theatre as I'm more interested in audio playback and would like to maximise the performance of my DVD playing.
As HDMI players are twice the price of conventional players and the extra cost for the HDMI cable of at least £40, are there a huge difference by this type of connection?
I'm thinking to have the audio connected to my Naim amp and use the LCD as display. Is this just the case of getting a HDMI cable to hook-up the DVD player to the LCD, then connecting the LCD's audio output to my Naim amp?
Any advice appreciated.
I recently bought a Samsung 32" LCD and am now thinking of this Samsung DVD player to complement my new TV since my old CRT has build in DVD and left without DVD playback now and don't fancy using my PS2 due to the noisy fan!
I'm kind of out of touch in home theatre as I'm more interested in audio playback and would like to maximise the performance of my DVD playing.
As HDMI players are twice the price of conventional players and the extra cost for the HDMI cable of at least £40, are there a huge difference by this type of connection?
I'm thinking to have the audio connected to my Naim amp and use the LCD as display. Is this just the case of getting a HDMI cable to hook-up the DVD player to the LCD, then connecting the LCD's audio output to my Naim amp?
Any advice appreciated.
Hello Dracula 
CRT is an analogue technologie, LCD (also plasma) is a digital technologie. The data on the DVD is also stored in 0 and 1. So the big advantage of the HDMI interface is, that you can give the digi-data directly to the TV, without going through D/A and then again A/D conversions. Theoretically your LCD should be able to profit from that connetion.
But HDMI alone is no warranty that the picture has to be better in any way. It depends also on the rest of the digital electronics like the deinterlacer. Rubbish in - rubbish out. That is true for both worlds. A good analoge component YUV connection can be almost as good, if well made...
I would give the audio directly to the naim preamp anyway. It's not going to sound better, when you have the TV sitting in between and an additional cable with 2 connectors more to go through.
happy watching
Adrian
CRT is an analogue technologie, LCD (also plasma) is a digital technologie. The data on the DVD is also stored in 0 and 1. So the big advantage of the HDMI interface is, that you can give the digi-data directly to the TV, without going through D/A and then again A/D conversions. Theoretically your LCD should be able to profit from that connetion.
But HDMI alone is no warranty that the picture has to be better in any way. It depends also on the rest of the digital electronics like the deinterlacer. Rubbish in - rubbish out. That is true for both worlds. A good analoge component YUV connection can be almost as good, if well made...
I would give the audio directly to the naim preamp anyway. It's not going to sound better, when you have the TV sitting in between and an additional cable with 2 connectors more to go through.
happy watching
Adrian
Should I connect the new DVD player to the LCD by DVI (only video) and phono separately from the DVD player as opposed to HDMI cable direct to LCD?
Also, I saw some cheapo HDMI cable for as little as £10 for 1 meter. I read somewhere that a good (and expensive) HDMI cable does makes a difference ? Any idea on this one? Thanks.
Also, I saw some cheapo HDMI cable for as little as £10 for 1 meter. I read somewhere that a good (and expensive) HDMI cable does makes a difference ? Any idea on this one? Thanks.
1) connect your dvd player to your tv with the hdmi cable
2) mute your tv
3) connect you dvd player to your Naim amp via standard audio output
as far as I can say, hdmi cables count for almost nothing in the final picture or sound rendering. more important though is the quality and capability of your digital connectors and signal processing. basicly speaking, a hdmi cable will simply allow bits to be transfered from point A to point B, while further equipment is supposed to detect and correct errors via CRC's. look it this way: the most cheap network cable will allow gigabytes of data to be transfered error free. the same will probably occur with the cheapest hdmi cable you'll find (only speaking of the actual cable here).
2) mute your tv
3) connect you dvd player to your Naim amp via standard audio output
as far as I can say, hdmi cables count for almost nothing in the final picture or sound rendering. more important though is the quality and capability of your digital connectors and signal processing. basicly speaking, a hdmi cable will simply allow bits to be transfered from point A to point B, while further equipment is supposed to detect and correct errors via CRC's. look it this way: the most cheap network cable will allow gigabytes of data to be transfered error free. the same will probably occur with the cheapest hdmi cable you'll find (only speaking of the actual cable here).