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Originally Posted by Shaggy
I'm pretty sure you mean "by industry standard" not "by US law". Otherwise component cables would be illegal, which they obviously are not.
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I meant what I said. (I may be wrong, but I'm not uncertain!) HD signals, as opposed to standard definition signals, are not allow to be carried via component signals for any equipment made after either 2004 or 2005, (I forget which), but only by HDMI cables thereafter. Equipment made before then could use component cable to transfer HD signals.
(This is a perennial pain in the backside for me, personally. I run a Mitsubishi 46 inch HDTV built in 2000. There was no HDMI then. Therefore, I can't use any "upconverting" DVD players to upconvert the signal, because the US law doesn't allow then to output via component cables, only HDMI, which my TV doesn't have. And I refuse to scrap a perfectly good, working HDTV with a nice picture, that cost me $3,000....)
Yes, there are DVD players with "hack codes" to allow component upconverted signals, but they are much fewer and farther between.
BlueRay is it's own animal....