Posted by NoNoBadDog! on 11/15/94 11:52

You are aware that Samsung makes the components for about 80% of the market,
do you not?

A little research may be in order to avoid putting ones foot in ones mouth.

Bobby

"Mike" <nospam@email.com> wrote in message
news:5Gbqg.87152$QI1.86159@newsfe14.lga...
> 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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