My cable box, My PS3, My DVD Home Theatre System, and my Mitsubishi 1080 DLP TV all have HDMI and IEEE 1394 connections. Is it true that you can hook-up up to 60 peripherals w/ IEEE 1394 (firewire)? How?
Sorry about the tough question. :)
2007-10-21 02:48:59 · 3 answers · asked by jndevn 2 in Consumer Electronics ➔ TVs
Both 1394 and HDMI are digital interfaces.
In HDMI the video is sent uncompressed. In 1394 the receiver can simply pass the compressed stream directly to the TV.
(same packets it receives from the broadcasting station).
So, from a video quality point of you 1394 could be better since the TV does not have to deal with the digital input noise from HDMI. In this case, the TV does all the video decoding and scaling as well.
Most 1394 devices have two ports. One for input and one for "output". It allows you to cascade (daisy-chain) multiple 1394 devices in the same bus.
You should try both and if you don't have many HDMI ports, 1394 will be an excellent alternative.
2007-10-21 06:56:19 · answer #1 · answered by TV guy 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
its not a tough question, just a complicated configuration of peripherals. HDMI cables give you the best throughput for something that is going to be a relatively constant dpi, such as a game console or DVD player, it is not good for something like a cable box as the format changes from analog, to digital, to high def and the screen resolution may be anything from 480i to 1080p....the HDMI cable tends to "short out" in this situation. The 1394 cables are a way to go only if you don't have anymore connections to use, and the device has that type of connection. 1394 is just basically a firewire connection and has allot off drawbacks, especially if hooking up to either a satellite box or cable-box, mainly, your onscreen guide and info bars may not show up and any emergency alerts, since they are digitally broadcast via analog signal, also do not come through....so the 1394 cable should be the last way to hook something up.
so PS3 with HDMI, fine......Home theater with HDMI, fine....cable box, use components.
2007-10-21 10:10:53 · answer #2 · answered by Helping Since 1969 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
HDMI.
2007-10-21 11:12:52 · answer #3 · answered by spir_i_tual 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋