dvd player hdtv
Sunday, June 27th, 2010Dvd Player hdtv
when viewing a movie on a hdtv, is progressive scan on a dvd player is better than component video output?
And what about hdmi connection. is that the best connection from a dvd player to a hdtv??
The best connection is HDMI (DVI) with component a close second. The DVD that you are using may be able to upconvert the signal to 1080i or even 720p and 1080p (new technology is always coming out). Component is capable of 1080p, 720p, 1080i, 480p, and 480i. While composite is only capable of 480i. I said earlier that component runs a close second and the reason is that because of the MPEG digital format and the allure of copyright infringments, Hollywood has forced the use of High-Bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP), thus the video quality and resolution may be artificially downgraded by the signal source to prevent the end user from viewing or especially copying restricted content. And also unfortunately what happens inside your HDTV just after the HDMI signal is decoded it’s converted to and analog signal, processed and reconverted back to digital (if you are using a digital display such as: plasma, DLP,LCD, LCOS, or HD-ILA)
What everyone wants is to produce the closest representation of the original as possible. The signal starts out as RGB (red, green, blue), and your display shows RGB. It would be nice to simply keep the original signals untouched, but there isn’t enough bandwidth to do this so the signal has to be modified to fit into the small bandwidth. Through the encoding/decoding, complex scaling, combining, compressing, modulating etc. of the signal (dependent up on what the original source is and the output selected), will result in varying degrees of quality. Generally speaking the more conversions the signal goes through the more errors are introduced to the signal (these are known as artifacts). These errors may look like lines, dots, jitter, etc. So as a consumer your job is to select the highest quality signal that your display can use (like the best stereo built with the cheapest speakers problem). You need to know what your displays highest resolution is, such as (from highest to lowest) 1080p, 720p, 1080i, 480p, or 480i? Then you select the highest resolution output from the source available that you can display. Here is the order (from highest to lowest), Type-B HDMI 1.3 (just released last month using a 29 pin connector for use with 1080p), type-A HDMI 1.2 (common 19 pin format), DVI (uses analog audio), component (YPbPr), S-Video, composite, and finally RF signal (and of course some displays allow inputs of VGA or RGB from computers, which has the fewest errors). Sometimes the better picture maybe component over HDMI if you are watching a standard definition signal because upconverting adds artifacts. That is something that you will have to find out for yourself. Many cable/ satellite boxes upconverters may not use the highest quality components.
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Car Dvd Player Mysteries: What Is Isdb-T?
Today’s modern car DVD players are versatile machines. Not only do many come with a wide array of
features (GPS navigation, the ability to receive analog TV signals, several different kinds of
audio file decoding capabilities etc.) but they also can be used in many parts of the world, each
with its own method of sending and receiving digital broadcast signals.
Answering the question “Car DVD player mysteries: What is ISDB-T?” might be something worth
looking at when trying to figure out how a car DVD Player Works.
For starters, every car DVD player works to handle incoming broadcast signals for radio,
television or other information in certain ways. One of the things the player has to do is make
sense of the digital broadcast signal standard in use in the country in which the player is being
used. There are several different classes of signal around the world and ISDB (“Integrated
Services Digital Broadcasting”) is one of them.
This particular way of sending and receiving digital signals (analog broadcast signals for TV and
radio are quickly going away in terms of popularity and usage) is a Japanese-developed standard
for how digital television and digital radio stations send and receive those signals.
It is also a replacement for what was called “MUSE,” or “high-vision” analog high-definition TV
(HDTV). With digital signals, much more information can be delivered much more efficiently than
with older-standard analog signals, by the way.
Basically, ISDB-T is a way to efficiently compress digital audio and video signals such that a
wide variety of formats (MPEG-2, JPEG and MPEG-4, for example) can be handled by a device. ISDB
is versatile and comes in a wide variety of signal modulations (which have to do with the
frequency the signal is beamed at).
At any rate, several other countries besides Japan now make use of ISDB standards, including the
Philippines and a number of nations in Central and South America (Brazil, El Salvador, Peru,
Chile, Argentina and Venezuela are just a few).
The types of devices that can make use of ISDB-T tuners to take in these digital signals is
varied, and one might see it on devices like car DVD players, cellular phones that can take in
digital broadcast signals and also laptop computers that can do the same thing.
Around the world, standards for digital broadcast vary as well, with some countries falling under
what’s called ATSC (new to North America, it replaced the older NTSC standard in mid-2009 and is
projected to completely take over in Mexico by 2021 and Canada by 2011) and others falling under
DVB-T, to name just a couple examples.
Today’s modern devices must be versatile enough to be sold anywhere, of course, and may feature
two or more such tuners in order to be able to be sold widely.
It’s also easy enough to find out about just what standard your country is making use of by going
online or by looking at the devices sold in your country, all of which will say just what
broadcast standards they’re capable of handling. Anybody considering purchasing a car DVD player
should take comfort in knowing that most devices today will be able to handle a number of
different signals, both efficiently and with a great deal of ease.
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