Real or just luck

[miggs29]

So, after several weeks of tweeking the settings on my sammy I thought that I had reach the end of the road and I was willing to deal with it eventhough I have not been able to find some decent settings to please my taste. So, tonight, I decided to read some of the reviews on this site and I read the article about HDMI and all its "stated" disadvantages. So, I pulled out my old monster component video cable and hooked it up instead of my monoprice HDMI. Well, the colors, brightness and contrast looked so much better with component cable than with the HDMI cable. Not that HDMI was horrible but, I can see a difference (better). Could someone explain that to me please? Do I have a bad HDMI cable or is it a setting issue? I ended up setting two imputs (sources) on the TV. One for HDMI and the other for component video. I can see a difference in the output and the resolution did not seem to be afftected. Why are the colors more vibrant and less dull through component than HDMI?

Sorry if questions are dumb, but I am comfused......

Thanks

 

[MDS]

It happens...I've read many a review where tests showed that the image was slightly softer on component vs HDMI or the other way around. There were also TVs that couldn't resolve every line of 1080i using component but worked perfectly over HDMI.

Two different interfaces with vastly different processing requirements. Sometimes they just can't get each of them to work identically.

I'm using component because neither my receiver nor my cable box has HDMI and my biggest fear is that I will upgrade to a receiver with HDMI and things will look worse.

 

[BMXTRIX]

What's the best answer to this?

An analogy might be comparing foods among different people. HDMI and component are simply two different ways of dealing with signaling and different displays and different components will handle HDMI vs. component completely differently. Kind of like the way different people like different foods, and the foods themselves could be different at different times.

So you get all your flavors of HDMI and all the resolutions you can send across it, and then then source needs to get that resolution out onto the cable properly, then the display has to accept that resolution and deal with it properly.

Not only is this something that was basically impossible ten years ago, but it's a feat of near magic that most displays do so well with it. So, unfortunately, depending on your source, your display, and to some smaller extent, your cable, you could end up with a better image via component then you do with HDMI. Then you could replace that display with a new one, or switch to a different source, and the HDMI cable could show marked improvement... or it may simply look identical.

 

[miggs29]

What's the best answer to this?

An analogy might be comparing foods among different people. HDMI and component are simply two different ways of dealing with signaling and different displays and different components will handle HDMI vs. component completely differently. Kind of like the way different people like different foods, and the foods themselves could be different at different times.

So you get all your flavors of HDMI and all the resolutions you can send across it, and then then source needs to get that resolution out onto the cable properly, then the display has to accept that resolution and deal with it properly.

Not only is this something that was basically impossible ten years ago, but it's a feat of near magic that most displays do so well with it. So, unfortunately, depending on your source, your display, and to some smaller extent, your cable, you could end up with a better image via component then you do with HDMI. Then you could replace that display with a new one, or switch to a different source, and the HDMI cable could show marked improvement... or it may simply look identical.

Thanks for your info. I haven't been here for a while now, but I do apprecieate your help...