"Bob Latham" wrote in message
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David Looser wrote:
"Bob Latham" wrote

A SCART to HDMI converter would allow an SD source to be fed to an "HD
Ready TV", not the other way about.

Fair comment, I've not looked.

In any case all BD players have standard-definition video outputs.

They never have scart RGB which is what people would need to feed an SD
analogue TV and only a few have S-Video. You would therefore be stuck with
composite video CVBS which coming from a BD player is a bit ironic.
Component inputs in the UK were very rare on SD sets in fact I know of
none.

Come to that all "HD Ready" TVs will also accept SD inputs, so
converters aren't necessary either way.

That is true but doesn't help someone move into bluray.

What troubles me is that what I've just written is very obvious indeed,

Not as obvious as you seemed to think. A converter will not provide HD
results even if one of the units connected to it is HD capable.

You don't say. Sorry, but that is obvious.

Neither are they necessary even if you wanted to do a staged upgrade.

Possibly true.

Anyway BD players are so cheap these days I can't see why anyone
upgrading their TV would consider adding a BD player as a "double
expense".

Well cheap ones are cheap as in anything.

Keith has become uttterely boring on the subject of HD. This isn't a
home-cinema newsgroup, and the video aspects of BD etc. are off-topic.
Keith knows all this but he'll still start a thread such as this one as
he enjoys trolling. Yes I know we should have simply ignored him rather
than react to his little games.

Or politely remind him this is not a video group but presumably it does
cover 5.1 etc..

I only glanced at a series of resent posts so i may have it wrong but was
he not trying to say that HD audio may be hard to prove worthwhile but HD
video was easy? I thought that was the gist anyway.


You are perfectly correct, but I have just posted a reply to you which
mentions why I brought the subject up.

Ignore all the 'off topic' squealing, Bob - every newsgroup on Usenet goes
on and off topic as its subscribers see fit and many a long and interesting
thread develops. What we have here in ukra is one or two (mostly just *one*
asitappens) people who are terrified that subject matter will stray from the
narrow little path into territory that they do not have a *lifetime's work
experience* of - as Mr Looser's hopeless remarks above clearly indicate....