Hope this helps
Kory said:
Thanks for readinh this i hope you can help.
I have a lot of questions so please answer as many as you can.
1.Can all component video cables carry a digital ( Y Cb Cr) signal. I just got a pair of RCA component video cables and it says designed for Y Pr Pb (which im pretty shure thats analouge). So can these carry a digital signal?
2.If a signal is progressive scan like 480p or 720p it is digital right? If not then wich signals are digital?
3.I have my PS2 hooked up through component video. My favorite game to play is SOCOM 2 which offers the progressive scan option (one of the very few ps2 games that do). So i turn it on. The picture is alot better then 480i so i am happy with that, but the problem is the color. Well not really the colors but the brightness. The white things are too birght and the black things are too dark so if i adjust the brightness either way it will worsen the other problem. Any sugjestions.
4.Unfortunatly my model PS2 does not support 480p when playing DVDs. So i was wondering if its wurth it to go out and spend $40 on a cheap name brand DVD player with progressive scan. Or since my TV accepts 720p and 1080i signals should i buy a $150 DVD player that upconverts the video to those formats. Is a DVD really better looking in 720p or 1080i?
5.This question gos along with the last one. I read that the Xbox supports games at 720p or 1080i resolution. Does it also play DVDs at those resolutions too, or is it like the PS2 and only plays the games at that resolution? If it does play DVDs at the resolution dont you think it would be worth it to buy just an Xbox instead of a $150 DVD player since you get a whole new game console anyway?
6.This also gos along with the fisrt 2 questions. My A/V receiver has 2 component video inputs and 1 output. They are marked as Y Pr Pb not
Y Pb/Cb Pr/Cr. So does it matterif i connect a device that carrys a Y Cb Cr signal?
7. I was doing some reading on nex-gen video discs. I was happy to here that HD DVDs will hit the market some time soon. But my question is are there any DVDs that are capable of being played in any resolution higher than 480i? I was told that all DVDs are not progressive scan but the DVD plater upconverts the signal. Is this true?
Thanks in advance for all your help.
(1) Component video cables are analog carriers. HDMI and DVI connectors can carry digital signals.
(2) Whether or not a signal is progressive has nothing to do with whether it is digital or not. Progressive refers to how the signal is scanned onto your display, not how it is transmitted.
(3) Use a DVD test disc like Avia to calibrate your component inputs
(4) No, buy a quality progressive scan DVD player and it will last you a long time and perform very well (my opinion, I'm not a fan of cheap electronics). If you have a fixed pixel display (plasma, lcd, etc. . ., not CRT) then you may benefit from an upconverting DVD player, but I've never seen how effective they are so I'm not the best person to answer that question. If you have a CRT HDTV I don't think you'll benefit much by getting an upconverting player.
(5) No, Xbox does not upconvert DVDs to 720p or 1080i
(6) As far as your concerned, component is component, don't worry about the identification scheme. Make video connections directly to your TV if you can unless you like being able to switch video and audio at the same time or if you don't have enough inputs on your TV
(7) DVDs are 480i on the disc. A progressive scan DVD player converts (scales) it to 480p.
