Posted by Mike on 07/03/06 16:34

Samsung is a crap brand. Spend the money and buy better brands. You get what
you pay for.

"Tom Horsley" <tomhorsley@adelphia.net> wrote in message
news:pan.2006.07.02.19.05.38.865183@adelphia.net...
> I've got a Samsung DVD-HD860 I picked up on sale as an experiment
> to try with my Westinghouse LVM-42w2 LCD monitor (to see if a
> 1080i upconversion of a DVD would look really spectacular
> or not - the answer is "a little better maybe, but spectacular,
> no" :-).
>
> In the course of fooling around with this, I discovered
> a side effect of the HDMI interface between the DVD player
> and the monitor:
>
> Apparently, if I switch the monitor to a different input
> while playing a DVD, the content protection junk gets
> all hot and bothered and decides it is no longer talking to
> a HDCP compliant HDMI interface, so it shuts off the video
> from the DVD player.
>
> Switching back doesn't help - have to power toggle everything
> to get the DVD video back on HDMI again.
>
> Is the HDCP spec fundamentally flawed?
>
> Is the Samsung DVD player poorly engineered?
>
> Or is it the monitor that should be keeping the HDMI
> interface happy even while I've switched away for a bit?
>
> (In a no doubt related effect, I've noticed I damn well
> better have the monitor set to the HDMI input before I
> power on the DVD player, or I once again get no video).
>

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