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Why HDMI? What you need to know before going digital

By Randolph Ramsay and Ty Pendlebury on 16 February 2009

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  praveen commented on 23/11/2007 19:14 Report abuse

  very very very good

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  Al Leach commented on 02/11/2007 01:17 Report abuse

  Will HDMI transmit the signal back to a DVD recorder for recording>
  thanks al

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  mrr56 commented on 09/10/2007 15:49 Report abuse

  i am looking to buy a sony crt with hdmi and also a philips/sony/panasonic dvd player with hdmi. is it really worth it as this is not a lcd or plasma and will i see the difference?

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  bomb2007 commented on 25/09/2007 23:06 Report abuse

  I have a plasma that does not have hdmi.I want to buy a ps3 but will i be able to get the high picture and sound quality through dvi?will i get 1080p capabilities?

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  Apposile commented on 08/09/2007 00:07 Report abuse

  Hi,
  I've got a Gigabyte 8800GTX and I'm running it out ot my Sony Bravia HD Panel (1366X768) But I have a scaling problem in Windows Vista Ultimate (Someone Shoot Me!) ... I can Scale up "Which is wonderful" BUT I cant scale down "I'm missing part of my Task Bar in Windows"
  
  Someone Save me from myself ... I'm irritating me so much with this oO,
  
  Storm
  "Apposile not Apossyle"

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  Dig4play commented on 05/09/2007 13:00 Report abuse

  HI I'm using a expressview 9200, hdmi to a panasonic projector (785-u) dvi, but when I go to dvi on projector imput It will only give me pic if bell ird is set to 420p , just blue or black screen when bell hd set to 1080i or 420i or 720p , 420p put my picture aspect out of wack with my screen , How can I get to work @ 1080i which works on all the other projector imputs rgb, s vid, composite, please help?

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  jean-claude zahner commented on 08/08/2007 02:54 Report abuse

  Pregunta :Tengo un televisor Sony kdsr70xbr2 y un receiver con cable hdmi pero necesito un adaptador para el cable y el televisor cual es el adaptador requerido ?

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  ralph w commented on 13/07/2007 20:24 Report abuse

  does it harm a plasma panel tv if it is left on standby ??

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  jdholmberg commented on 23/06/2007 00:42 Report abuse

  I have just bought a Toshiba 72CM9UA rear pro tv, and connected it through my topfield tf5000pvrt, with high quality Monster cabling, and an RG6 antenna cable.
  I am having trouble of what I call drop outs. The sound will drop out for a couple of seconds often when I am watching something I recorded earlier. Ocassionally my picture will pause, but the counter will still be running. I have to bookmark my place in the recording, stop the program, and start it over again, and jump to the place the program stopped.

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  turbofun1 commented on 20/06/2007 10:05 Report abuse

  I have a Gforce 7950 video card in my computer connected to my new 37inch olevia TV (720p). At first I had them connected with a s-video cable. The picture was poor. Text was blurred, and I could only reach resolutions of 1024 X 768. I bought a DVI to HDMI cable hoping to see some improvement. (the cable cost $60). The improvement was amazing. In fact I am browsing the internet on my tv right now. The picture and text is as clear as it would be on a LCD computer monitor. (of course at a greater distance from the screen - 2meters or so.) My resolution is running at my tv's max of 1366X768. For those who are looking at a similar setup, there is one setback. The refresh rate on my tv is 60Hz, which is not bad, (computer monitor is set to 75Hz). When watching dvd's from my computer on my tv I can see the refresh.(note, only a picky display enthousiast would notice something like this.) Possibly you could find a tv with a higher refresh rate. (I know I got carried away, but yes, in my case, the cable was worth it).