HDMI: How and where from?

[Ciaran]

720p > 1080i for all HD LCD/Plasma/RPTV's. (assuming its not 1080p panel)

[GODZOOKI]

You can get them for 5quid, my ma paid $79.99 in eb for me!

[labarte]

It really depends on your TV. My hitachi plasma looks nicer with 1080i for ridge (which is a native 1080 game) and blu-ray. The ps3 automatically chooses 720p, if I overide that and specify 1080i, 720p games are reduced to 480p. Quite annoying.

See what looks best on your TV, if you have a plasma you may find 1080i is better.

[Grandmaster]

HDMI is a purely digital connection. You'll either get a picture or you'll get one that breaks up, or more likely doesn't appear at all. I fail to see any quality advantage in buying a more expensive one whatsoever. It's like paying ?30 for a USB cable to copy your AVIs across in the hope that it'll improve the picture quality. It's just not going to happen.

WIth regards the poster earlier talking about ghosting. That is a purely analogue after-effect usually seen on cables with poor shielding. If you're getting it with an HDMI cable there's either something wrong with the source, or more likely something going amiss in the panel itself.

[yesteryeargames]

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would this HDMI give me a clear crisp, picture with no shadowing ect?
is this a good price? and cable to use?
thanks

chris

just read the above post, well the cable i have atm cost ?5 and has a very thin wire, im going to give the above a go, im sure it will improve the image a bit?

[womblingfree]

Progressive is better than interlaced

Depends on the size of the screen.

If your TV is less than 40" you will not notice any difference between 1080i and 1080p.

It's just marketing!

[IanE]

Progressive is better than interlaced unless it's a still picture, which games are not. PS3 games are natively 720p too. Auto detect best picture chooses 720p over 1080i too so I fail to see your logic.

720p>1080i.

Wrong wrong wrong wrong so many times wrong.

Progressive is better if the panel supports progressive natively, mine doesn't, so it's not suitable for me. Mine is natively interlaced at 1920 x 1080, so 1080i is the best option.

PS3 games are natively whatever they're native at. Most seem to be 720p, but there are 1080p ones like Ridge Racer.

Auto detect on your TV chooses 720p, ARR.

No. 1080i looks better than 720p, it's a higher resolution, despite being interlaced (which on a panel that supports proper 1080i will look a lot better).

[J0e Musashi]

Auto detect on your TV chooses 720p, ARR.

Fair enough. I didn't realise we were talking about our personal panels.

This is my TV. 720p>1080i. Still need a HDMI cable for 1080p.

This is my other TV. 720p>1080i.

[sj33]

Not really much point getting into the old 720p Vs. 1080i thing again surely, because we all already know the deal here.

For games, 1080i is higher resolution (even if it is interlaced), but the progressive nature of 720p arguably makes that a preferable option if the source and screen are progressive themselves since games are much more reliant on a fast, smooth refresh than video.

It's a different debate completely when talking about film or video footage, because then we get into exactly how much a progressive input actually adds to broadcast footage compared to a higher resolution, and with film, how effectively 1080p/24 can be convered to 1080i/60 (I don't know the technical side, it's said a 1080i/60 signal can show the full detail or a 1080p/24 signal).

What screen do you have IanE? Interesting that it's natively interlaced.

[EvilBoris]

What screen do you have IanE? Interesting that it's natively interlaced.

LCD is progressive by its very nature, they simply display each field at once, the set will be a native resolution of 1920*1080 but can only accept a 1080i signal opposed to the full 1080p.

You're still getting a progressive image due to the screen and the image being deinterlaced.

[sj33]

My bad, thought he said his screen was natively 1080i for a second! Thought that sounded odd unless he had a CRT HDTV or something!

[Dragon2k4]

Will these cables work on the machine?

(HDMI A/M 19P to HDMI A/M 19P 3M in black):

http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/88022

(2MTR HDMI M - HDMI M CABLE):

http://www.ebuyer.com/UK/product/107904

[Crisp_Rapper]

hdmi cable is hdmi cable, so yeah... around 1m in length you'll notice no difference, but if you go longer i'd get a properly shielded one from QED or the like as i've noticed sparklies using 2m+ cheapass hdmi cabling.

the sparklies are pretty cool, it's like your panel is firing off red pixels randomly in a christmas light stylee but it's not cool to watch stuff on.

[sofasurfer]

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would this HDMI give me a clear crisp, picture with no shadowing ect?
is this a good price? and cable to use?
thanks

chris

just read the above post, well the cable i have atm cost ?5 and has a very thin wire, im going to give the above a go, im sure it will improve the image a bit?

I have one of these with my DVD player and the jump from a bog standard cheapo cable was outstanding.

http://www.qed.co.uk/i121c197-158/QED_Cables/Digital_Interconnects/Qunex_HDMI.htm

You can get them on the high street for ?40 but hunt around online and you can pick one up for about ?30.

[Crisp_Rapper]

i only use QED cables for my av gear... top stuff and comes in a variety of lovely colours too, purple hdmi, blue scart, see-through silver weave coax, pearl interconnects. mmm.