JeffTheAlpaca

What if you bought a blu-ray player and you have a 1999 Mitsubishi HDTV but it has no HDMI connection? The TV is connected to a Onkyo AV Receiver and it has no HDMI connection either.

Could you still get the highest picture quality with no HDMI or is it possible to have some type of HDMI adapator or something to connect to that old TV to get a HDMI connection?

gmanca

I think it depends on how the disc is mastered re: HDCP. If the disc forces the bluray player to output to lowest quality of Component Video, then you cannot get HD quality. Component output "can" reach 1080p but it has to be given that as a source.

There may be a device that takes HDMI signals and disregards any quality degradation to the Component signals. Then again, you are limited to what your TV's highest resolution is.

danwiz

I don't believe I would buy a blu-ray player knowing that my 1999 TV did not have an HDMI connection. Heck, my TV DOES have an HDMI connection and I don't have or plan to buy a blu-ray player.

Spiky

Ok, sorry, but both of those answers are not useful. Plug it in via component and you will be fine. There is no reason to convert to HDMI, it's just a connection, it's not some magic elixir of HDTV. (considering the continuing handshake problems, kinda the opposite) And if your TV is a CRT, that is analog, anyway, so it has to be converted no matter what, might as well let the player convert it and send over component.

The component video system as used in TVs is capable of up to 1080i, which is all you need for full quality, 1080 playback of BDs. And again, if it's a CRT, 1080i is its top resolution, anyway.

gmanca

If you don't have an HDMI input, when the ICT flag is enable you won't get full HD quality via Component. It's in the HDCP to force people to upgrade whenever they decide to switch the token on.

Spiky

Ok. Give us a call when that happens and we all promise to freak out. Remember, it is per-disc, not at player level.

JeffTheAlpaca

So if I just connect with component cables the blu-ray discs will look about the same as regular standard dvds?

What if I bought a new A/V receiver that had a HDMI connection? Would that work?

The TV is HD ready but you need a converter I think to watch HD programs.

spainlinx0

No, you will get HD using component cables. It will look better than DVDs.

kefrank

However, it's worth nothing that it will be at the player level starting with all models released after 2010:
http://www.ultimateavmag.com/news/no..._from_blu-ray/

Spiky

Ouch, I had missed that.