I have over the last five years of so, with my Sony 32" KDL 32V2500 LCD TV, declined to use HDmi connections between my Pioneer DVD/HDD recorder and Humax HDR and my TV.
I use SCART and have always found that gave me excellent picture quality on most of my recorded programmes and indeed from the tuners in both external recorders mentioned.
However on several occasions and indeed today I did connect my Humax to my TV using an HDMI connector and viewed the Humax's tuner on the TV. Frankly I found that, on the HDMI's output to my TV, the picture quality was not up to the SCART's input and my partner, sitting beside me, confirmed those findings. I obviously tweaked the TV's AV5 input settings (to which the HDMI leasd was connected) but I really couldn't see any improvement. On the Humax's remote I scrolled thrugh the V-format until 1080i showed on the screen etc.
To my mind and with my setup there doesn't seem to be any advantage in HDMI and this is rather worrying as I was thinking of upgrading the TV to something larger and thinner where SCART is featured less and less and the SonyW6 KDL42653 only having one SCART.
Is my 'old' TV the weak link here?
NB. This afternoon I have tried some more experimetation and changed the V-Format on the Humax remote through back to 576i and this gave me a much better, acceptable picture via the HDMI input to my TV
I use SCART and have always found that gave me excellent picture quality on most of my recorded programmes and indeed from the tuners in both external recorders mentioned.
However on several occasions and indeed today I did connect my Humax to my TV using an HDMI connector and viewed the Humax's tuner on the TV. Frankly I found that, on the HDMI's output to my TV, the picture quality was not up to the SCART's input and my partner, sitting beside me, confirmed those findings. I obviously tweaked the TV's AV5 input settings (to which the HDMI leasd was connected) but I really couldn't see any improvement. On the Humax's remote I scrolled thrugh the V-format until 1080i showed on the screen etc.
To my mind and with my setup there doesn't seem to be any advantage in HDMI and this is rather worrying as I was thinking of upgrading the TV to something larger and thinner where SCART is featured less and less and the SonyW6 KDL42653 only having one SCART.
Is my 'old' TV the weak link here?
NB. This afternoon I have tried some more experimetation and changed the V-Format on the Humax remote through back to 576i and this gave me a much better, acceptable picture via the HDMI input to my TV