CurtPalme.com Home Theater Forum

**kal** · Last edited by kal on Sun Nov 16, 2008 7:45 pm; edited 1 time in total

The jargon has been demystified! How to hook up various components both old and new to your home theater with a lot of examples. Includes the newest HDMI devices such as Blu-ray!

CLICK HERE: Hooking it all up!

Written by Curt and myself, pictures by forum member ecrabb. Thanks SC!

Kal

**Curt Palme** · Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 11:13 pm Post subject:

Dayummm!

Nice work everyone!

ecrabb · Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2008 11:34 pm Post subject:

Sweeeeeet...

Nice job, Curt and Kal. Curt, now you have have an even more comprehensive guide for people to ignore before calling or emailing you to ask about stuff that's covered in the guide.

Smile

SC

PS - Like the tweak you made on the text that described my setup. Nice.

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 12:20 am Post subject:

**kal** · Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 3:48 am Post subject:

ecrabb · Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 5:07 am Post subject:

Yeah, but I DESIGNED the system and I'm *barely* a wanna-be engineer. One of my best friends is an engineer, but a mechanical - not electrical.

Most important, it's been months since I stayed at a Holiday Inn Express.

SC

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 7:00 am Post subject:

kschmit2 · Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 9:09 am Post subject:

Kal:

SDI only works up to 576i

you need HD-SDI for 1080p24 or 1080i60 and dual HD-SDI for 1080p60

Kai

**kal** · Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 3:35 pm Post subject:

Thanks Kai.

I think I'll just leave out SDI completely as I likely creates more confusion than anything else. Anyone reading that page to learn something is somewhat of a 'newbie' so they're likely to never run into SDI right?

Kal

ecrabb · Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 3:40 pm Post subject:

SDI is definitely not newbie stuff, if for cost reasons alone. If you're looking at SDI (especially HD-SDI), then you're an advanced user (enthusiast) and you've already done a bunch of reading and should know what the hell you're doing.

SC

**kal** · Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 3:55 pm Post subject:

Ok, I dropped the SDI info... no point in describing something that the average reader's *never* going to come across.

Kal

kschmit2 · Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2008 7:00 pm Post subject:

haha, they'll find this thread now if they search for SDI Smile

JustGreg · Joined: 07 Mar 2006 Posts: 3098 Location: Kenosha, WI

Nice work guyze! Thumbs Up

Very clean and professional. Reading past the connectivity portion on into the pj histories makes me want to yank the Barco out of the crate and play with it. They sound 'interesting'.

Again, nice work. Wink

Greg

paw · Joined: 08 Mar 2006 Posts: 1176 Location: Arvada, CO

Looks really good. I like example #10. Bring it on baby! 8)

ThomasW · Joined: 22 Jan 2008 Posts: 16 Location: Uppsala, Sweden

Very nice, pedagogical writing and graphics !

If I may add my 5c: I have a setup close to figure 3. But inbetween HDMI source and HDMI/DVI to RGB converter I have a video processor. When I got a HDDVD player, I tried exactly like figure 3, second example. This is good if the ready available signal will "fit" your projector. However, I discovered that the signal out of the HDDVD player (1080i60Hz) was weird, with very large video porches that made it impossible to use most of the raster horizontally on my 6PGextra. I got a Lumagen HDP and that fixed it ! The Lumagen will also allow gamma correction if you have the skill and knowledge for that. So, I think that even with HDMI sources one might benefit from a videoprocessor in the chain, leaving digital to analog conversion at the end of the chain.