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eliwhitney

Again thank you for all of the information, I will give it all a read later tonight. As for the 1080P, I thought DirecTV offered movies in 1080P, they even list them as such on their site if I am not mistaken.

I think I will switch my XBox back to the RGB cable, and then got back to only having HDMI on my other two units. I don't have my surround sound hooked up at the moment. I regret not getting on here sooner to ask questions.

Live and learn I guess!

eliwhitney

As far as the XBox and Netflix downloads go, I can't answer if they are SD or HD, I don't know. Would the cable connection matter either way?

c1fowler (back) - -

I'll leave this "open" for the technically astute amongst us to correct me - but - it's my view that there's currently insufficient Capacity available between Satellites & your dish (generic) antenna to "beam" stuff to Customers in .. 1080p ..

AND - recall the lack of 1080p Set Top Boxes, even "IF" the signals got to them.

"IF" one wants to view same from a proper disc, it HAS to be with a HDMI connection, very-preferably Certified as well.

eli

c1fowler wrote:eliwhitney

Again thank you for all of the information, I will give it all a read later tonight. As for the 1080P, I thought DirecTV offered movies in 1080P, they even list them as such on their site if I am not mistaken.

I think I will switch my XBox back to the RGB cable, and then got back to only having HDMI on my other two units. I don't have my surround sound hooked up at the moment. I regret not getting on here sooner to ask questions.

Live and learn I guess!

Those 1080P movies are really done as downloads through the Internet, not directly from the satellites. I have no personal experience with them but have heard from those who do that the 1080p quality is closer to 720p and not comparable to a Blu-Ray disc at all.

c1fowler,

1080p and component: If your TV only accepts 1080i as you said why bother with wiring for 1080p requirements on equipment that is currently not handling 1080p signals, i.e. your X-Box? Component analog wiring would be fine for the 1080i of the X-box (if you do not mind the extra audio connection).

Calibration: I suggest that you at least use a calibration disc to calibrate the TV’s “component analog” input using the DVD player within the X-box, and separately calibrate the TV’s Blu-ray HDMI input using that BD player.

1080p on component analog standard: The industry standard for “component analog” rejected a modification proposal to allow 1080p to be included as part of its standard specs, but that does not mean that 1080p cannot pass thru that wire.

1080p and HDMI: 1080p was already a standard feature within HDMI version 1.0 (December 2002), version 1.3 brings more features to the HDMI capability, but 1080p is not new. Any decent quality short HDMI cable rated for high speed would handle 1080p. HDMI LLC does not allow manufacturers to use the version (1.3a for example) nomenclature on their products (equipment or cables) they must rather indicate the functionality (in the case of cables is the speed category, not the version).

http://www.hdtvmagazine.com/articles/20 ... lution.php

HDMI wiring: The wiring changes you have done are on the path that is not on the DVR input, which as you said, the DVR is still connected directly to the TV, adding a switcher on the other input should not affect the other TV DVR input (although the quality of the switcher could affect the voltage/hand-shaking of the X-Box and Blu-ray, which is not the actual problem), so I suggest for you to unplug and replug both endings of the DVR cable, it may happened that while rewiring the other input (for the switcher) your existing HDMI cable male endings for the DVR got slightly wiggled out of the female jacks (TV and DirecTV).

Best Regards,

Rodolfo La Maestra