Blu-Ray Players

[Mr Peabody]

Come on Pix, you are being a bit dramatic. Component is capable of 1080i and with decent cables the connection is not far off from HDMI. It could be, with standard video as most modern sets don't upscale via analog connections due to copy protection. Component is not as bad as you want to make it out to be though.

[pixelthis]

Come on Pix, you are being a bit dramatic. Component is capable of 1080i and with decent cables the connection is not far off from HDMI. It could be, with standard video as most modern sets don't upscale via analog connections due to copy protection. Component is not as bad as you want to make it out to be though.

CAPABLE of 1080i? Thats like saying a girl has a great personality.
I know that you have a dlp 1080i, and didn.t mean to insult you, Mr P.
But the time has come for you to upgrade to 1080p, and not just for BLU.
I watched 2001 on ONDEMAND this morning in 1080i, which my set deinterlaced to
1080p. Deinterlacing gives a real improvement as opposed to upconversion,
progressive being so much better than interlace. This doesn't mean 2001 was an good
as BLU, but darn, it was close. WATCH it on your set and you start out with half the
rez of a 1080p;, and its downhill from there, as you lose a great deal whenever theres movement, and thats after two D/A conversions. SORRY, but the industry has passed
interlaced by. TIME to start shopping.

[Woochifer]

Come on Pix, you are being a bit dramatic.

You noticed that too, huh?

Component is capable of 1080i and with decent cables the connection is not far off from HDMI. It could be, with standard video as most modern sets don't upscale via analog connections due to copy protection. Component is not as bad as you want to make it out to be though.

Actually, component video is fully capable of carrying a 1080p signal, and in the early days of HDMI (before signal equalization and boosting switches became available), was preferred over HDMI for long cable runs.

Component video is well within the capabilities of existing HD video standards. It's getting phased out with Blu-ray players starting this year because of copy protection agreements with the studios.