Hi there, my first post on the forums and I have to say that I am hoping for a little bit of advice.
We bought an HD ready TV 4 years ago when ours died one day. The screen we got was a Philips 26PF5520 which has done us quite nicely. Up until now, we've been playing DVD's through an Xbox (the first generation) and as it's really noisy and we don't really use it for anything else (we've just got a Wii) we are looking at getting a DVD player of some sort.
What I thinking of was instead of getting a normal DVD player, getting a Blu-ray player (perhaps the Sony BDP-S350) instead. One question I have though is that the Philips TV doesn't have an HDMI socket, it's HD input being through DVI-I, are we going to lose out on the advantages of going to HD because of the connection limitations of the TV? I seem to remember something a while ago about all pieces of HD equipment needing to be able to communicate with each other in order to get the full quality pictures (HDCP?).
The other question is to do with sound set-up. Currently if we got the Sony, the audio playback would be through the TV. I'm not convinced that the sound would be brilliant but I don't really want to trail wires around the living room (at least not this one, we're thinking of moving in which case setting up a 5.1 system might be possible), so I was pondering on how great an impact going for something like BDV-FS350 which is a 2.1 system would be? This system is ~£400, which is about as much as I can afford, not a a huge budget I know, but anything's got to be better than the whirring xBox.
Thanks for any help you might be able to give.
Steve
Cheers
We bought an HD ready TV 4 years ago when ours died one day. The screen we got was a Philips 26PF5520 which has done us quite nicely. Up until now, we've been playing DVD's through an Xbox (the first generation) and as it's really noisy and we don't really use it for anything else (we've just got a Wii) we are looking at getting a DVD player of some sort.
What I thinking of was instead of getting a normal DVD player, getting a Blu-ray player (perhaps the Sony BDP-S350) instead. One question I have though is that the Philips TV doesn't have an HDMI socket, it's HD input being through DVI-I, are we going to lose out on the advantages of going to HD because of the connection limitations of the TV? I seem to remember something a while ago about all pieces of HD equipment needing to be able to communicate with each other in order to get the full quality pictures (HDCP?).
The other question is to do with sound set-up. Currently if we got the Sony, the audio playback would be through the TV. I'm not convinced that the sound would be brilliant but I don't really want to trail wires around the living room (at least not this one, we're thinking of moving in which case setting up a 5.1 system might be possible), so I was pondering on how great an impact going for something like BDV-FS350 which is a 2.1 system would be? This system is ~£400, which is about as much as I can afford, not a a huge budget I know, but anything's got to be better than the whirring xBox.
Thanks for any help you might be able to give.
Steve
Cheers
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