derKster

question about HDMI + COMPONENT

i read somewhere that it is BAD to mix cables when wiring a home theatre. What i mean is that if you use an HDMI as an OUPUT for your tv, then all other wires should be HDMI as well. Not component. Is this true??

alan halvorson

Re: question about HDMI + COMPONENT

No. I don't know what is meant by "bad", but you should have no trouble using any and all connections at the same time.

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Bob McElfresh

Re: question about HDMI + COMPONENT

I did find 1 problem:

I had a HD cable box hooked up with component for many months. I was re-cabling all my box's to use HDMI, but when I hooked up BOTH the component and HDMI, the component feed popped up a strange ERROR and announced it was dropping to 480 resolution. And it did.

With both hooked up:
Component - 480
HDMI - 720


Somehow - hooking HDMI activated copy protection and down-graded the component output.

So I think the rule might come from this. Only one cable type from each device, not all devices must use the same cable.

Right now I have 2 devices using HDMI and 2 devices using component and other than a little complication switching, it works fine.