Anyone using HDMI connections yet?
I recently bought a Sony 30" widescreen HDTV for our living room and at the same time bought the Sony 975 DVD player with HDMI. I am pleased with both units. The 30" has the best picture I've seen and the DVD viewing through HDMI is very good. In the family room where the HT set up is I bought the 62" Toshiba DLP. I have a Denon 1600 DVD player with Progressive Scan but no HDMI or DVI. I was thinking about replacing the Denon just to take advantage of HDMI but I wonder if I will see much difference between the component video upconverted by the TV and the HDMI. And has anyone done any comparisons as to how the different brands do with HDMI? I was thinking about the Toshiba SD-5970 but I read on another board some bad things about this unit. I could buy another Sony 975 but I don't know if I want to spend that much again. I won't use the SACD portion and could maybe save by using a machine without it. I heard the Panasonic does great. I haven't found glowing reviews of any of the HDMI units, I wonder if that is a technology that has some growing to do? Logic would seem that if HDMI is done correctly it would be better because there would be less converting to do since it is already digital going into the TV where component would be analog into the TV, changed to digital for the conversion and back to analog again for viewing. That's my understanding anyway.
Help me out here, surely someone on this board is up to speed with the new technologies.