HD hardware question
Dec 16, 2009 at 5:35 AM Thread Starter Post #1 of 1

khaos974

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In the DVD era, there was a difference between the players since they did the digital to analog conversion, more expensive players often had a better image quality.

But now I wonder if there is a difference between blu-ray players except for the supported standards. That is to say, if the standards supported (HDMI 1.4, BD Live, 1080p/24 etc...) are the same, is there a difference between a 200$ and and 2000$ player?

As far as I understand, and assuming that you have recent hardware, the digital video signal goes to the A/V receiver and is passed through to the display device without change. The digital audio signal goes to the A/V receiver to be decoded and converted to analog.

Given that, does the A/V receiver simply become an audio component?

Summed up, is a blu-ray player stricly equivalent to a transport assuming that the A/V chain downwards can accept the latest HDMI format?
 

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