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Finally got misel down with the kids n got a new 42" panasonic 1080p tv n blu ray bangla,well, coming on tuesday.
AND A REALLY SEXY STAND,(DONT TELL JOHNNY ;) )
I'm not usually bad with technology but,can i just use a HDMI cable to connect instead of scart leads?
Obviously blu ray player is HDMI only,so i kno that one.
Got sky + HD coming in a few week,and am reliably informed that the HDMI cable that comes with the sky + hd box is SHITE,any ideas peeps?
It's a digital signal so the quality of the cable is not remotely important, if it works at all, it will work well. I've no doubt that there are many uneducated types out there who will tell you the picture looks worse on a cheap cable, they are simply seeing things that are not there.
Yes you can just use it to do the connecting.
If you want a "better" one, it'll cost FAR too much.
lcd are crap, shoulda gone plasma....
but Cambo is WRONG! Don't lead up with the old RCA cable, digital does not transfer as well through that. Coaxial, composite, fiber optic, etc are better ways to go....
(but he is right on that brand name stuff is only marketing shite)
I said there was no difference betweeen cheap and expensive HDMI cables.
Other types of cable transfer in different ways.
My two main PC's share a monitor. One is on HDMI and the other on good old smell analogue VGA, I struggle to see even the slightest difference in them, and that's on a screen that slightly excede the resolution of TrueHD.
BTW....I hope to hell your TV is TrueHD and not HD-Ready, or your Blueray is a total waste of money (HD-ready is a scam....it's low res (13something by 7something), and the HD picture is downscaled to fit it, TrueHD is 1900x1080)
Doctor? wrote: It's a digital signal so the quality of the cable is not remotely important, if it works at all, it will work well. I've no doubt that there are many uneducated types out there who will tell you the picture looks worse on a cheap cable, they are simply seeing things that are not there.
Yes you can just use it to do the connecting.
If you want a "better" one, it'll cost FAR too much.
I read a review bout the cables a few weeks back,aparently,the best selling cable on amazon costs £2.99 and has 5 star reviews all the way! 3 are winging there way to barnsley as we speak!
Edel,tis a plasma me old fruit,42".
Looked at the differing pic quality on LOADS of 42" lcd tv's and the one i've gone for has FAR better picture quality,strange innit,or could it be my fooked up eyes 
Doctor? wrote: It's a digital signal so the quality of the cable is not remotely important, if it works at all, it will work well. I've no doubt that there are many uneducated types out there who will tell you the picture looks worse on a cheap cable, they are simply seeing things that are not there.
Yes you can just use it to do the connecting.
If you want a "better" one, it'll cost FAR too much.
I read a review bout the cables a few weeks back,aparently,the best selling cable on amazon costs £2.99 and has 5 star reviews all the way! 3 are winging there way to barnsley as we speak!
Edel,tis a plasma me old fruit,42".
Looked at the differing pic quality on LOADS of 42" lcd tv's and the one i've gone for has FAR better picture quality,strange innit,or could it be my fooked up eyes
Is it plasma or LCD?
LCD has improved substantially recently, but they still have that lag in fast movement that just bugs the crap outta me. Even the most top end models have it, it just takes too much time for LCD to change pictures. But as long as things stand still, LCD is beautiful.
and Cambo, sorry for the misunderstanding. You are right about the cables then
It's possible to have a Liquid Crystal Display with a Gas Plasma backlight you know 
(NB, "Gas Plasma" in this case is not a technical oxymoron, I use the term to denote plasmas (or plasmae?) of materials which are generally considered gasses in the normal course of things, as oppised to things like mercury vapour )
Geriatric Jem wrote: It does say LCD in the Thread subject...
Well that's what I thought but s last post kinda confused me
Not to be a cunt, but most HD is shit anyway, half of us are on our way to going blind to begin with.
michael preda wrote: Not to be a cunt, but most HD is shit anyway, half of us are on our way to going blind to begin with.
There's a nice cheery thought to the start the day 
EdelBrock wrote:
Geriatric Jem wrote: It does say LCD in the Thread subject...
Well that's what I thought but
Just to clear this up,the telly i just bought is a Panasonic 42" viera PLASMA.
EdelBrock wrote:
Geriatric Jem wrote: It does say LCD in the Thread subject...
Well that's what I thought but
Just to clear this up,the telly i just bought is a Panasonic 42" viera PLASMA.
Best brand I think for a plasma, blacks are the best out there (an issue with many plasmas). Good choice.
AND A REALLY SEXY STAND,(DONT TELL JOHNNY ;) )
I'm not usually bad with technology but,can i just use a HDMI cable to connect instead of scart leads?
Obviously blu ray player is HDMI only,so i kno that one.
Got sky + HD coming in a few week,and am reliably informed that the HDMI cable that comes with the sky + hd box is SHITE,any ideas peeps?
Thing i've found about HD tellys is you need to get your contrast, brightness etc settings correct, the cable doesn't matter i have £5 HDMI cables and £55 cables and i can't spot any difference at all.
Go on AVforums search out your telly model No. and get some settings off there,its the best thing i ever did for my tv, it is time consuming and annoying but the results will do more than any cable
That's cos it's digital. Any signal interference does not appear as fuzziness or furriness or speckly noise, those are artifacts of analogue systems and their gentle degradation from perfect to fucked. If your cable, or any other part of your rig is failing, you will get "ticks", "jumps", "squeaks" and coloured, often green, flashes......in fact the exact same shit you get with satellite telly on a day with apalling atmospherics or extremely high winds, or with incomplete avi/mpeg files.
You are spot on about contrast etc. I'm not sure settings from the net will really work, unless the devices are all identically calibrated internally. My Hanns-G 28" monitor (which is my TV, had to do it that way, TV's make wanky monitors, but monitors make great TV's although you lose the shininess of TV, replace by a more gritty realism of colour.) uses an auto contrast feature, which while it's normally the sort of thing I'd touch with a barge pole, does work rather well. When bright things come on it ups the overall brightness and contrast, and when it's showing dark scenes they both reduce. Very effective, except sometimes in driving games where there is a lot of dark cockpit interior in-frame, which darkens the whole lot, including the outside world.
