Using BluRay with Mitsubishi 1080 HD - No HDMI ????

[rivrbyte]

Hello,
I wanted to ask a question for my brother,who has a SONY BluRay player, and a Mitsubishi big screen 1080 TV. I gave him the Sony BD player as a present,but he told me after watching a blu ray disc, it did not look any better than using a regular DVD player. I asked him what connections he has and I think he told me he has no HDMI input/output from the TV, and used component cables,or maybe composites..I'm not sure. is there any type of converter to make this BD player come to life?

is there anything out on the market to enhance his Bluray playback,or does he have to buy a new flatscreen HDMI TV?

Thanks!

 

[zhimbo]

Hello,
I wanted to ask a question for my brother,who has a SONY BluRay player, and a Mitsubishi big screen 1080 TV. I gave him the Sony BD player as a present,but he told me after watching a blu ray disc, it did not look any better than using a regular DVD player. I asked him what connections he has and I think he told me he has no HDMI input/output from the TV, and used component cables,or maybe composites..I'm not sure. is there any type of converter to make this BD player come to life?

is there anything out on the market to enhance his Bluray playback,or does he have to buy a new flatscreen HDMI TV?

Thanks!

Component vs. composite is important. If it's composite, then, yeah, it'll look like crud. Component *should*, in principle, be fine for picture quality. Is the player directly connected to the TV or via a receiver?

 

[BoredSysAdmin]

Component is 3 Colored plugs (RED,GREEN,BLUE) composite is Single and typically yellow.

If in both cases it was connected with component cables (hopefully) difference b'ween upscaled dvd to 1080i and blue-ray downscalled to 1080i could be not too drastic

 

[chris357]

i have a mitsu 55" 1080i rear proj. and use an HDMI/dvi(or whatever that plug is) from my blu ray to my TV and the picture quality is amazing..

 

[BMXTRIX]

i have a mitsu 55" 1080i rear proj. and use an HDMI/dvi(or whatever that plug is) from my blu ray to my TV and the picture quality is amazing..

Good point! If the TV in question has a DVI connection, then a HDMI to DVI cable may work.

My feelings on this (as I said on another forum) is that you first need to make sure that the connection is component video at the very least (red/green/blue) as this will carry 1080i HD, while composite (yellow) only carries 480i. It's a huge resolution jump!

Also, make sure the player is set to output 1080i video and that there is actually a Blu-ray Disc which is being played and not a DVD.

 

[chris357]

thats a good point about the settings, you could have all the right cables but have that wrong and you get a bad picture.

 

[mperfct]

Good point! If the TV in question has a DVI connection, then a HDMI to DVI cable may work.

My feelings on this (as I said on another forum) is that you first need to make sure that the connection is component video at the very least (red/green/blue) as this will carry 1080i HD, while composite (yellow) only carries 480i. It's a huge resolution jump!

Also, make sure the player is set to output 1080i video and that there is actually a Blu-ray Disc which is being played and not a DVD.

Something also to consider, if the display has DVI, that it needs to be HDCP compliant. I think it might not work if it isn't. Luckily, my "old" Sony 50" LCD RP was HDCP.

 

[allargon]

One thing no one mentioned is that most Blu-Ray players won't upscale stamped Hollywood (Some won't even scale homemade DVD-R's.) SD DVD's over component. You can still get 1080i over Blu-Ray until they start shipping disk with ICT.

Keep that in mind.

Oh, the other thing to mention.... Google HDFury to make that pesky lack of HDMI go away should you have worry about that whole ICT thing.