New generation blu ray players lacking analog outputs (1 Viewer)

Not that I need a new blu ray player yet but I was just browsing and was surprised to find that the newest blu ray players have only HDMI and digital audio out.

This is distressing because my current setup utilizes both the HDMI and composite video outs. The HDMI goes into the big TV and the video out goes into a DVD recorder which I sometimes use to make "mix" discs from my collection. These are long play DVD's with TV shows and movies that I use when I work or sometimes I even go to sleep with them. The DVD recorder is seen at a preview monitor off to the side.

Also, I have a legacy receiver that will remain there until it conks that takes Analog inputs for both 2.0 stereo and 5.1. So, it was already a chore to find a blu ray player with 5.1 analog out. Now, it will be a chore to get a player with ANY analog out when I want to replace the blu ray player.

I know there are HDMI to analog converters out there but I don't know which ones are good or if any are good.

Analog Sunset

They don't want you to be able to make mix discs from analog outputs.

I have both HDMI and component connected on my Blu-ray player. This allows me to switch to component and see closed captions on DVDs which don't have subtitles.


I have noticed a few new HDMI-only players which now have closed caption decoding built-in to get around this problem. I'm hoping Oppo will get on board with this trend before I need to replace my BDP-93.

I have three Blu-ray players. The 3D player has no analog outputs, only HDMI and a digital audio output. Late at night I prefer to listen through headphones, so I route the digital audio into a DAC which feeds my headphone amplifier.


It's elaborate but it works OK.