After having just gotten your new Blu-ray Dvd Player, you will obviously be excited about testing it out. No doubt you will be anxious to see the glorious 1080p picture and High Definition sound quality. So the examine is this: how to set up your new Blu-ray player to get the top possible doing from it? Will it be as straightforward as connecting your Dvd player? Will it be a breeze?
Not exactly!
Hdmi Tv
When setting up your new Blu-ray player you have to keep in mind, this is a rather new technology, therefore over the past few years Tvs and Av receivers have been adapting to conform to this new format. Unfortunately, you may inspect not all of them can hold every new highlight of your Blu-ray player. This may make the process a little more difficult than setting up your thorough Dvd player. So I have outlined a few procedures and possible difficulties you might come across so that you can more precisely integrate your new Blu-ray player into your home entertainment system, hopefully without too much frustration.
Basically to get the best doing out of your Blu-ray player you need to understand three features: Picture, Sound, and Internet Connectivity. You will inspect all three can be precisely done with some straightforward cable connections; no fine-tuning necessary, just some straightforward modifications to the set-up menus maybe all that is required. Hopefully this guidance will cut out any confusion and the whole process will go very smoothly for you.
Picture
1080p High Definition picture capability - this is why most population buy their first Blu-ray Player and it is the best highlight of any Blu-ray player. Blu-ray movies are stored on a disc in 1080p at 24 frames-per-second so you often see this referred to as 1080/24p. The director filmed the movie at this rate, so Blu-ray discs allow you to view the movie as it was originally meant to be seen. Blu-ray players allow you to watch these Hd movies by connecting it's Hdmi production to the duplicate input on your Tv, so a Hdmi cable will need to be purchased if one is not included with the Blu-ray player. In most cases a Hdmi is not provided. Hdmi cables can run in any place from to 0. (Some argue there is no distinction in Hdmi cables, no matter what the cost.)
Not all Blu-ray players are capable of this 1080/24p production rate. These players will be older, and instead of the 1080/24p production rate they turn the signal to 1080/60p using a recipe called "3:2 pulldown' technique. What this plainly means is one frame is played three times and the next frame is played twice and so forth. This results in one frame being shown on the Tv screen slightly longer than the other. This produces judder into the picture, a little challenging or shaking of the picture.
To avoid this problem, a straightforward explication would be to buy a newer model Blu-ray player. Most of the newest models can production 1080p pictures at 24 frames-per-second via Hdmi. Also, your Tv set must be able to hold it. If it does not, then if you feed a signal of 1080/24p into a Tv which can not hold it, the Tv will turn the signal to 50 or even 60Hz. This will also place judder into the picture.
What this all comes down to is to get the best, purest and most genuine High Definition picture possible, you need a Blu-ray Player capable of a 1080/24p production signal (this is precisely selected on the set-up menu) and a Tv capable of supporting this signal. Most of the newer Lcd and Plasma televisions will give you the right hold you need. Lcd sets normally have a 120Hz mode, where each of the 24 frames is repeated five times and shown on the screen for the same estimate of time, producing no juddering. Plasma normally has 72Hz 3:3 pulldown mode and they can use this because they do not have as much slowdown as the Lcd.
Sound
The second highlight most population buy the Blu-ray for is the excellent sound quality. Blu-ray has the superior 'lossless' Dolby True Hd and Dts Hd specialist Audio. What you get with these audio formats is 100 percent identical to the customary studio specialist track. This is a clear benefit over Dvds which use Dolby Digital and Dts, but again as with the picture signal, not all Av receivers are capable of decoding the newer High Definition formats.
Set up is fairly easy if your receiver can decode the formats because both Hd formats can be used via the Blu-ray player's Hdmi production port and the Hdmi input port on the receiver. This allows a bitstream (meaning raw digital data) to be transferred to your Av receiver where it is decoded into multichannel sound. All you need to do is set your Blu-ray player's Hdmi production to bitstream or primary. The Hdmi ports on these devices must be specified as version 1.3/1.3a/1.3b. These are the only versions that allow for the transmitting of Dolby TrueHd and Dts-Hd Audio. You will also need a Second Hdmi Cable to connect the Av receiver's Hdmi production to your Tv's Hdmi input. The Av receiver will decode the audio and forward the 1080/24p video signal.
Things can get a little trickier if your Av receiver does not decode the Hd audio formats. However, it does not mean you can not still enjoy the great high capability sound. One choice available to you is to set up your Blu-ray player to internally decode the audio and turn it to Lpcm (an uncompressed form of audio). This choice is placed in the set-up menu and found on approximately every Blu-ray player. Lcpm can be transferred over any version of Hdmi and it preserves the high multichannel sound capability of both Dolby True Hd and Dts Hd. This way your receiver does not have to do any decoding. (Take note that some lesser Blu-ray players will only turn 5.1 Dolby Digital or Dts into Lpcm.)
This Lcpm choice assumes your Av receiver has Hdmi inputs. If it does not have these Hdmi inputs, then your best choice is to look for Blu-ray Players that can decode the Hd sound formats into high capability analogue and production them from multichannel outputs. Using visual or coaxial outputs which are normally found on most players can not be used because the do not have the sufficient bandwidth capabilities to forward Dolby TrueHd and Dts-Hd Audio.
Internet Connectivity
Most newer Blu-ray players have a highlight called Bd Live which allows you to download content from the internet, play games online and participate in web chats. To use this highlight you need a Blu-ray player with a Profile 2.0 since these Blu-ray players have an Ethernet port you can use to connect to an internet router or computer. (Profile 1.1 may have an Ethernet port but Will Not hold Bd Live.)
Also, you may need a Usb flash memory drive or Sd card to plug into your Blu-ray player. This provides digital storage for updates and extra data. It's recommended that the drive or card be at least 1 Gb. Other than the Playstation 3, no other Blu-ray players on the market have internal memory built-in, but some newer Blu-ray players are now unveiling Wi-Fi, eliminating the need for external storage.
Conclusion
Hopefully, by checking all three factors discussed above - Picture, Sound, and Internet Connectivity - will make setting up your new Blu-ray player a lot easier. Just ensue all the steps and you will get the best picture and sound capability that only a Blu-ray law can deliver. Happy viewing!
The Right Way to Set Up Your New Blu-ray Player
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