HDMI vs component video

danger boy
danger boy Posts: 15,722
edited August 2008 in Electronics
I am pretty late getting into the game of digital transfer from player to TV.

I have been using high quality component cables for years now.. and the picture quality is quite good... till I switched over the a digital HDMI cable this week I purchased from another member here.

while not a day and night difference.. the sharpness increased a bit. I really noticed the color depth is deeper now. The subtle grays and blue tones have better definition now.

Like I said.. not a night and day difference.. but with my old tube TV it did improve the picture so that I feel now I'm getting the most I can out of the aging gear I have. ;)

* my tv only has DVI inputs.. so I had to get one of them HDMI to DVI adapters, it worked great though.
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  • kuntasensei
    kuntasensei Posts: 3,263
    edited August 2008
    The biggest difference between HDMI and Component is that HDMI represents color values digitally, whereas Component undergoes analog reconstruction by a color decoder. The problem there is that pretty much every color decoder in consumer gear pushes red and is NTSC inaccurate. On a properly calibrated set where you can adjust the color decoding, the differences are minimal.
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  • disneyjoe7
    disneyjoe7 Posts: 11,435
    edited August 2008
    My experience here is that analog TV set's like the analog input, Digital sets LCD, Plasma and the like look best with a digital input. But even with that said, it's always the source as I'm very happy with a 480i signal with a S-Video input from a DVB MPeg2 satellite receiver, which is really close to a nice HDMI input from DirecTV STB.

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