A question about Blu Ray and my new TV

[surgeon1919]

Hi guys!

I'm new to the forum. I just bought a JVC LT 46sl89 LCD tv. I find the picture quality amazing.

It's a 60hz which doesn't bother me because I don't see any blur.

The TV doesn't accept 1080p/24 signal, it has a telecine option but it cannot be used when receiving 480p,720p,1080p.

If I a blu ray what difference does this make for me?

Does it affect the picture quality in anyway?

A side question is I'm using a JVC TH-D60 HTIB. It will upconvert to 720p or1080i. It has HDMI pass-through slot and an HDMI monitor output slot.

Could I use an HDMI cable from the blu ray for the audio/video and connect it to the HDMI pass-through to send all sound and video to the HDMI monitor out connected to the tv or is the monitor out typically only from the HTIB to the tv? The instructiona manual doesn't discuss any of this!

Or should I use a coxial output for the audio from the blu ray to the HTIB and use an HDMI to the tv to avoid problems?! How good is coaxial audio quality?!

Any clarification would help a lot!

 

[Adam]

Welcome to the forum!

I can't answer your main question, but I'll take a shot at your side questions.

Could I use an HDMI cable from the blu ray for the audio/video and connect it to the HDMI pass-through to send all sound and video to the HDMI monitor out connected to the tv...?

Yep, you can do that. The only advantage that comes to mind is that you could use the same input on the TV for the blu-ray player and the DVD player, and select between those two using the remote for the surround sound system. Because your surround sound system can't extract audio from the HDMI input, it doesn't do that much for you to plug the blu-ray player into that slot.

Or should I use a coxial output for the audio from the blu ray to the HTIB and use an HDMI to the tv to avoid problems?! How good is coaxial audio quality?!

Definitely connect the coax digital audio (or the optical - they will provide essentially the same performance) whether you connect the blu-ray's HDMI cable directly to the TV or decide to route it through the surround sound system. That's because your surround sound system can't extract audio from the HDMI connection. Coax digital audio quality is fantastic. Coax and optical can't carry the new lossless formats (like Dolby TrueHD), but they do carry Dolby Digital and DTS. You'll want to be sure to pick the appropriate audio track on each blu-ray disc and/or set up the blu-ray player to downmix the lossless codecs to something that your surround sound system can handle (assuming that the blu-ray player can do that). Also, you'd want to set up the blu-ray player to output audio as bitstream instead of PCM.

 

[surgeon1919]

Thanks for the quick reply and greeting Adam!

Your reply just made me think of something! I could use 1 HDMI from the Satelite box to the tv and 1 optical cable from the satelite box to the HTIB. 1 HDMI from the blu ray to the tv and use 1 coaxial audio from the blu ray to HTIB leaving 1 HDMI slot available on the TV.

It may be a little annoying to switch everytime I want to watch tv or blu ray but 98% of the time I'll be watching tv.

I don't know why I didn't think of this before!

As for sound quality, I'm very happy with the sound I get from the TH-D60. I'm actually running 14g speaker wire on the HTIB!! I know tru HD is amazing but I care most about picture quality!!

 

[surgeon1919]

Can someone still tell me if my TV cannot accept 24p from a blu ray would it make such a big difference in video quality?

 

[bandphan]

Can someone still tell me if my TV cannot accept 24p from a blu ray would it make such a big difference in video quality?

Didnt you state that your tv doesnt accept the signal?