Lord_of_the_Dense
September 27th, 2006, 11:44 PM
By George Ou - TechRepublic
In another case of consumer rip-offs, Humphrey Cheung is reporting that Sony will not be including an HDMI cable with the Sony PS3 and cites Sony’s own website as the source. Cheung points out that Best Buy offers HDMI cables for $60 to $200 which is a bit of a nasty surprise for shoppers. Note that a quick search on the internet will yield lesser-name online vendors that offer $13 6′ HDMI cables though you’ll probably still have to pay at least $10 for shipping and handling.
In my experience, this is only where the nightmare begins. I have a Toshiba 72" DLP HDTV capable of displaying 1080p (or that’s what it’s advertised as), the only catch is that the HDMI interface on it (as with most HDTVs on the market) only supports 1080i. Apparently, you would have to have a 29-pin HDMI 1.2a type B connector or an HDMI 1.3 connector to be able to support 1080p. Most of the HDTVs on the market use the older 19-pin connectors and this kind of information isn’t obvious. DVI which is several years old has always supported very high resolutions at progressive scan, so it’s frustrating that they electronics industry is shoving this stuff (to keep it civilized) on the consumer which highly technical people have a hard time understanding.
If I want to view 1080p, I would need some kind of proprietary IEEE 1394 firewire device that is supported by the onboard embedded computer in the HDTV. When I plugged in my Sony HDR-HC1, the Toshiba recognized the device but told me it wasn’t supported so I’m forced to go back to analog RGB component inputs and standard RCA for the audio. That’s a total of 5 cables on each end I have to plug in and I know people who are even scared of plugging in a single cable.
Read entire story here (http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/Ou/?p=309&tag=nl.e019).
From The Sony Playstation site (http://www.us.playstation.com/PS3/specs.html):
In another case of consumer rip-offs, Humphrey Cheung is reporting that Sony will not be including an HDMI cable with the Sony PS3 and cites Sony’s own website as the source. Cheung points out that Best Buy offers HDMI cables for $60 to $200 which is a bit of a nasty surprise for shoppers. Note that a quick search on the internet will yield lesser-name online vendors that offer $13 6′ HDMI cables though you’ll probably still have to pay at least $10 for shipping and handling.
In my experience, this is only where the nightmare begins. I have a Toshiba 72" DLP HDTV capable of displaying 1080p (or that’s what it’s advertised as), the only catch is that the HDMI interface on it (as with most HDTVs on the market) only supports 1080i. Apparently, you would have to have a 29-pin HDMI 1.2a type B connector or an HDMI 1.3 connector to be able to support 1080p. Most of the HDTVs on the market use the older 19-pin connectors and this kind of information isn’t obvious. DVI which is several years old has always supported very high resolutions at progressive scan, so it’s frustrating that they electronics industry is shoving this stuff (to keep it civilized) on the consumer which highly technical people have a hard time understanding.
If I want to view 1080p, I would need some kind of proprietary IEEE 1394 firewire device that is supported by the onboard embedded computer in the HDTV. When I plugged in my Sony HDR-HC1, the Toshiba recognized the device but told me it wasn’t supported so I’m forced to go back to analog RGB component inputs and standard RCA for the audio. That’s a total of 5 cables on each end I have to plug in and I know people who are even scared of plugging in a single cable.
Read entire story here (http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/Ou/?p=309&tag=nl.e019).
From The Sony Playstation site (http://www.us.playstation.com/PS3/specs.html):