Gimme a break, you all missed the most important part…
The Sony projector doesn’t have HDMI inputs that are HDCP compliant, but it upscales Blu-ray and HD DVD players’ component outputs to its native 4K resolution. So sure, it might look even better if he could use his HD player’s digital outputs, but Kipnis feels the picture quality he’s getting right now is “far more outstanding and realistic than any other movie theater I’ve experienced on the planet.”
FAIL!
Ha! And people can’t believe it when we talk about how average Joe has no clue about HD. :)
As none of you have this $100,000 digital projector, or know what Blu-ray or HDDVD player he is using, you are all making a very wide assumption that there is some discernible visual difference between an upscaled HDMI signal on this projector and an upscaled component signal.
As far as cabling goes, people who say “it’s digital, cable does not matter” are over-simplifying the issue. There HDMI protocol does not have any error correction, so if you are in an electrically-noisy environment, a $20 shielded cable would be better than a $5 solder job.
As none of you have this $100,000 digital projector, or know what Blu-ray or HDDVD player he is using, you are all making a very wide assumption that there is some discernible visual difference between an upscaled HDMI signal on this projector and an upscaled component signal.
As far as cabling goes, people who say “it’s digital, cable does not matter” are over-simplifying the issue. The HDMI protocol does not have any error correction, so if you are in an electrically-noisy environment, a $20 shielded cable would be better than a $5 solder job.
How much would that setup cost if he used sane-person parts? $300000?
You mean, a setup that did not use a $100,000 projector with a $15,000 lens and a $10,000 projector lamp? It would cost less, but would not be the same setup.
He just lost 75% of the pixels by using Component (for 1080p, less for 720p of course). One just can’t make information out of nothing, so he won’t be getting those 75% back… no matter how godly his upscaling is.
It’s kind of like watching PDTV quality on a 50" from 5 feet away. It’s ass.
That’s educational, actually. I didn’t know that the copy protection degraded the resolution of HDCP content over component.
Okay, then that hurts. Thanks for explaining that, Igor.
Technically that’s only if that token is set on the content, and none of the studios have started using it yet. But if they do…well, he probably won’t mind throwing a couple hundred bucks at one of those HDCP-stripping devices and an HDMI-to-component converter.
And yeah, cable quality matters even for digital signals (hello SCSI gremlins!), but it still doesn’t cost very much before you get to the ‘good enough’ point.
I meant without pointless components like feng shui balanced cables etc. :)