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Cords on DVD player

9 years ago

Do the cords on a DVD player make a difference in clarity of the pictures. I bought a blu ray DVD player and used an HDMI cable instead of the RCA or AV? It took away my options to change the format of the picture, but the picture is very clear and nice. Is it the DVD player or the cables that give a clear picture.

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Elmer J Fudd
9 years ago
I'd say it depends most on the source material. A Blu Ray disk has greater capacity than a DVD and so for a program or movie of a given length of time, it has room to store a higher definition (more clarity and sharpness) version compared to a DVD. That is, IF the production company chooses to put a higher definition version on the disk. An old DVD movie, for instance, will most certainly have a lower definition image than a newer movie on BR.

You can buy a 6 foot long HDMI cable from Monster with all kinds of impressive (and nonsensical) specs for $59.95. Or, you can buy one from cables.com for $5.95. Or, you can get one free in the box your player came in. Or you can use a component connection with RCA plugs. So long as the cable, the plug connections and the plugs are in good condition for all the possibilities, neither you nor your TV set will know there's any difference between them.
emma
Original Author
9 years ago
Thank you Snidely, I will put the other cable on and see if it still takes over the formatting. It may not be the cables, maybe the player.
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oh well you have every type of connection on there you could get and you only need ONE! IF you have an HDMI cable that goes from your TV to the DVR player that is it that is all you need disconnect all those other cables! the HDMI is video and audio all in one cable that is the advanatage of HDMI one cable and the highest quality. The other options are only to be used if you are using devices that do not use HDMI. So plug the HDMI cable to either the DVR or the DVD depending on which one you want to use, then use the the red and white RCA jacks on the tv (it does not matter if there is a yellow one beside it that yellow is for video not audio so you will use the red and white only) plug your headphones red and white male cords in to those red and white female out jacks on the tv. That is all! leave all other cords out of the equation. As long as all of your devices that you want to connect to the tv have HDMI use that. IF your tv did not have HDMI then you would use the 3 colored ones yellow white and red that carries video on yellow and right and left audio on the red and white. Ok try that just the HDMI cable and your head phones. BE sure that the source input on the tv is set to HDMI if that is what you will be plugging the DVR or DVD into, if the source input is not selected on the tv you will not be getting the signal. This statement right here is very baffling -a 3-prong (yellow, red & white) from the TV (video out) to the three middle (audio out) jacks on the DVR. you state you are going from tv out to DVR out you can not go from out to out there has to be an IN for anything to work. But you do not need those cables so remove them completely from the equation. HDMI out from DVR to HDMI cable IN on the tv period. Headphones base unit red and white male plugs into the TV red and white female audio out jacks. Period
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pprioroh
9 years ago
You absolutely want to use HDMI. cable quality makes no difference as it's a digital signal, not like audio/analog cables.

You can change format using your player, you just need to find the option in the menu. Cables will not change this.

Component would be next choice (but now you need a audio cable for digital audio as well). Under no circumstances use anything other than those two.
emma
Original Author
9 years ago
My TV has 4 or 5 different formats. With the DVD play I only have wide screen and auto which doesn't do anything. My last DVD player did not do that so I thought it might be the HDMI cable.I did find the option but it is different with every movie and I don't want to go through the hassle, sometimes I opt for another option just to find the first better, so I change back and forth sometime.
Elmer J Fudd
9 years ago
The comment from pprioroh answered your format question (which I'd ignored in my reply):

"You can change format using your player, you just need to find the option in the menu. Cables will not change this."
emma
Original Author
9 years ago
Thank you all.

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