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question about HDMI + COMPONENT

post #1 of 3
1/3/08 at 8:11am
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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??
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post #2 of 3
1/3/08 at 8:02pm

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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post #3 of 3
1/4/08 at 7:33am

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.
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