Ned Flanders wrote:
ROANIN wrote:
What is the difference between HDMI and Component Video. I recently
bought an HDMI cable and hooked it up from my cable box to my HD TV.
It was not a MONSTER cable as they are stupidly overpriced etc. It
was just a normal one. The results as viewed by myself and my wife
was that the Component video source from the cable box looks just as
good if not better than the HDMI feed. ( these component cables were
left with my by Time Warner when they delivered the HD DVR) Any
explanations or opinions on this. Thanks,

R


Others have explained the difference between HDMI and Component video,
so I will pass, but will give you my 2 cents on a problem my dad and I
ran into.

1) The manufacture of my TV has an option that allows the
entertainment system to predict what I need and turn on or off things
like BlueRay and the Amp when using HDMI. I hated this so I disabled
the option.
2) In our area we (both my dad and I) were having a little problem
once in a while with momentary drops in signal. When using HDMI the
screen would go blank for 10 - 20 seconds while the TV and Cable Box
reestablished a connection. I switched both systems to Component Video
from the cable box only and I no longer get the blank screen as the
blip in the signal is often hardly noticeable. I still connect to my
BlueRay using HDMI and to my Amp using optical.

YMMV
OK Thanks group for all the good information. All I know is that when I
hooked up the component connections they looked better than the HDMI 1.3b
cable and the box did say "professional" on it so who knows. Will just leave
it the way it is for now..

R