YANG
Screenwriter
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Fellow Folks. Most of you may know by now, my HT had shrunk to just a simple setup consisting just a Bluray player sound bar, Laserdisc player, a harddisk recorder together with a 32inch LED TV due to over the year space constrain.
I believe that some folks here are still using Laserdiscs and DVDs as their media of enjoyment of films although video technology had advanced in the past 20yrs or more. New gears are packed with punch on motion picture clarity as well as better sound with simple setups.
Complicated and space consuming gears are things of the past. No messy wirings, when Audio Visual elements are now transported thru a single HDMI cable.
Remember the past? During the Laserdisc time, to get the best pictures, one will have to spend a big amount of money for a S-Video cable compare to RCA composite one? When DVD emerges, one will have to spend also a good amount of cash for RGB component cable that surpasses S-Video cable and other better Composites?
How about the audio? More complicated. From Dolby Matrix Surround, to discrete Digital surround sound offering from 2 camps, Dolby and DTS that requires much more dedicate setups? As well as dedicated discs(Laserdisc especially) to get the best rocking sound from your setups?
Certainly... i would not be surprised if someone now will raise up his hand ask pop this question to me... "What? Laserdiscs? DVDs? Time to live the new age dude... BluRay rocks now! Are you still living in the ancient age?"
(Don't be surprised, this is the exact remarks i got when i picked up the Laserdisc player from the assets department while the folks there are sending it to the dumpster...)
To summarize this thread, folks who maybe still holding LDs and DVDs of your favorite movies, don't be despair. You can still make your system rock with the aid of the new age gears, as well as companions from the old.
Here's how i setup and the gears on my setup...
MonitorTV- 32inch PANASONIC LED TVL.D. player- Mitsubishi unknown, with analogue audio out to DVR, optical digital straight to BR/Sound Bar. HDD +DVD- PHILIPS DVR725H with S-Video cable out from LDplayer to this recorder for composite video out to TV.BluRay+SB- PHILIPS HTB5150k with output connection link to TV with a HDMI cable Settings on the BR/SoundBar HDMI video output is set to 4:3 fullscreen 576i with zoom in engaged on TV to cut off the left and right black bars such that a proper WS2.35:1 widescreen, or screen filled WS1.85:1 is achievable, irregardless whether the different medias were anamorpic transferred or not. Yeah... i know... it's... under run. But the purpose is simple, trying to score a balance Video quality across different medias.
Sound? For comparison purpose, as well as limitations on the Laserdisc player, Virtual surround processing is engaged on both Laserdisc and DVD of the same movie. While Laserdisc's digital tracks mostly carries Matrix Dolby Suround sound, some discs carries DTS discrete surround while some of the DVD counterpart may not. The same vice versa on Laserdiscs as most of the DVD titles released from yr2000 onwards carries mostly discrete Dolby 5.1 surround, as well as DTS 5.1 which do not need additional component in a setup... The AC3 RF modulator.
Without further ado... the comparison goes off!