Posted by Jeff Rife on 12/19/05 22:42

David Levy (d_levy@lifeisunfair.net) wrote in alt.video.dvd:
> > How does it deal with DTS without having a DTS decoder (none do,
> > because they don't need it for OTA)?
>
> I'm not an audiophile, but I assume that there's some theoretical
> inherent advantage to using digital audio inputs.

Not for two-channel audio, there isn't, since the decoding is done at
some point anyway. And, unless your TV has 6 speakers distributed around
the room, anything above 2-channel is lost.

Last, does it really matter how good the audio is when you feed it to a
$10 TV speaker?

> > As for FireWire outputs, how often do you record something by tuning
> > your TV to the correct channel and using a VCR to record the output
> > from the TV?
>
> 1. Some DVHS VCRs lack ATSC tuners.

Unfortunately, almost all TVs with FireWire outputs don't have a timer
on/off function, and some that do have timers merely turn on/off at the
time but can't change channels. So, again, is a FireWire output really
useful?

> 2. Is that the only possible application?

For output, yes, since the HD stream can't be recorded by anything else
(well, a PC that is pretending to be a D-VHS unit can record it, but that's
really the same thing). You can't hook up a digital camcorder, because it
only supports DV, not HD MPEG-2. You can't hook up a DVD camcorder,
because they don't have FireWire inputs (and don't support HD). You can't
hook up an HD camcorder because although HDV is MPEG-2, it's not the same
as what the TV outputs.

> > > Samsung's model TX-R2765 (the 27" 4:3 HDTV monitor that I
> > > purchased) displays 480p.
>
> > Yes, it accepts 480p.
>
> That isn't what I wrote.

Yes, I know...that's the point.

> > Unless you have access to the interior of the hardware, there is no
> > way to know how it displays it.
>
> Are you accusing Samsung of false advertising?

There isn't anything in their specs that say *how* they display 480p.
They just "support" it. They might display it as 540p. They might
display it as 1080i. They might display it as 480p, or even 480i. There
is no way to know without detailed inside hardware specs (or taking an
oscilliscope to the tube inputs).

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