DVI Better than S-Video?

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Pedro <NOpedro165SPAM@cox.net> wrote in news:MPG.1c5d9601e5bbc05a9896c1
@news.west.cox.net:

> I recently bought a Samsung DLP HDTV set and I got as part of a
> promotion a Samsung DVD player that can connect to the TV set via a DVI
> cable. For some reason the DVI connection does not work, and I don't
> know whether to get the TV people out to fix the problem or whether to
> just continuing with the S-video connection that works. Is DVI better
> than s-video?

The one word answer to your question is YES!

Now go and check through the menus on both your DVD player and TV to make
sure that both of them are set to use the DVI connection. Second best
would be component video. Svideo is a cut above composite (not
component) video which is the ordinary yellow wire kind of thing that is
now thoroughly obsolete but usually provided for backward compatibility.
If you have an audio system that uses digital audio you should make sure
that it is set up for the best (Dolby 5.1 or DTS) audio that you can.
Mine is automatic, so I really only had to set up the DVD player to
output DTS when available.


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I had the same problem with my Samsung DVD player, which by the way, doesn't
have features found on DVD players costing 1/4 as much, such as the ability
to remember where you stopped a particular DVD and play from there when you
turn the player back on to continue watching where you left off. Anyway,
you have to go into a sub-menu (can't remember where it is exactly) and
enable DVI output, but in order to do that you've got to hook up the DVD via
the composite cables first just so that you can view the menu. Now that
makes a whole lot of sense!

"Pedro" <NOpedro165SPAM@cox.net> wrote in message
news:MPG.1c5d9601e5bbc05a9896c1@news.west.cox.net...
> I recently bought a Samsung DLP HDTV set and I got as part of a
> promotion a Samsung DVD player that can connect to the TV set via a DVI
> cable. For some reason the DVI connection does not work, and I don't
> know whether to get the TV people out to fix the problem or whether to
> just continuing with the S-video connection that works. Is DVI better
> than s-video?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Pedro
>
>
> --
> To contact me directly by email, please remove the words "NO" and
> "SPAM" from the reply address above.

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Ok.... my ideas are...

1. Check the settings on your DVD player. There may be a configuration
screen where you must change the video output mode to DVI.
2. Check the DVI resolution setting on your DVD player. You may need to
make sure it is set to 1080i or whatever the HDTV DVI port can take.
3. To answer your question, the DVI hookup is probably going to be better
than the S-video or Component hookup. The reason I say "probably" is that
I've heard that some HDTV's have incredibly high-quality S-Video & Component
signal convertors and video processing features, so much so that they do a
better job than the DVI feature on your DVD player. I might be way off base
about this, it's something I intend to experiment with myself some day.

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"Pedro" <NOpedro165SPAM@cox.net> wrote in message
news:MPG.1c5d9601e5bbc05a9896c1@news.west.cox.net...
>I recently bought a Samsung DLP HDTV set and I got as part of a
> promotion a Samsung DVD player that can connect to the TV set via a DVI
> cable. For some reason the DVI connection does not work, and I don't
> know whether to get the TV people out to fix the problem or whether to
> just continuing with the S-video connection that works. Is DVI better
> than s-video?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Pedro
>
>
> --
> To contact me directly by email, please remove the words "NO" and
> "SPAM" from the reply address above.

email wachs eight four at yahoo dot com (but don't spell out the numbers)

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On Mon, 24 Jan 2005 04:23:47 GMT, "Gary Wachs" <email@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>Ok.... my ideas are...
>
>1. Check the settings on your DVD player. There may be a configuration
>screen where you must change the video output mode to DVI.
>2. Check the DVI resolution setting on your DVD player. You may need to
>make sure it is set to 1080i or whatever the HDTV DVI port can take.
>3. To answer your question, the DVI hookup is probably going to be better
>than the S-video or Component hookup. The reason I say "probably" is that
>I've heard that some HDTV's have incredibly high-quality S-Video & Component
>signal convertors and video processing features, so much so that they do a
>better job than the DVI feature on your DVD player. I might be way off base
>about this, it's something I intend to experiment with myself some day.

You are right about #3. On my setup (Yamaha LVX510 Front Projector)
I get better pq using composite from my JVC video recorder on the non
hd and non premium channels and hdmi/dvi cable from the SA4200HD
cable box for hd and premium channels.

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On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 11:08:24 -0800, Pedro <NOpedro165SPAM@cox.net> wrote:
> I recently bought a Samsung DLP HDTV set and I got as part of a
> promotion a Samsung DVD player that can connect to the TV set via a DVI
> cable. For some reason the DVI connection does not work, and I don't
> know whether to get the TV people out to fix the problem or whether to
> just continuing with the S-video connection that works. Is DVI better
> than s-video?

There should have been a separate sheet to explain how to enable DVI
(since many fail to RTFM). But I simply connected both DVI and composite
cables, and from composite switched from "480i" to "DVI/480p" in the DVD
menu, answered Yes, then switched my TV to DVI. Then "DEV SEL" on the
remote can select different DVI modes (480p, 720p, 768p, or 1020i).

Some people knock the less expensive Samsung players, but the HD841 works
fine for me with widescreen 27" LCD TV and stereo sound system. The same
people complain about macro-blocking (boiling pixels) on more expensive
players.