Kableman: The HDMI connection also confused me to begin with. I have the Denon 2910 player, and it has a HDMI connection. But, it doesn't make it a HD player. The HDMI connection is just there to enable a digital signal to be sent from the player directly to the screen without any conversion, whereas the older methods had to decode the digital signal into analogue and then back into digital, meaning a loss in picture quality. But to be perfectly honest, i don't really know whether its really worth having, as some of these gadgets are like leads, in that there improvements are only noticeable under laboratory conditions. I paid £500 for my player from Sevenoaks, managed to get it priced matched, it was £550 and that was on a sale, and it didn't even come with a HDMI cable, whereas i've read on these forums that some guys bought the Panasonic, or was it Samsung, and it came with a HDMI cable. And them players are only half the price of the Denon. Anyway - when i enquired at Sevenoaks about a HDMI cable, the guy recommended this £60.00 cable, i said £60.00!!!!!!, he said thats a cheap one, we've got £200 cables here, and there only 1M!!!!!!!!!!
I ended up getting a QED HDMI cable on-line for £45.00 which provides a fantastic picture, and as i said above, the £200 cable might provide a better signal under laboratory testing, but are you really going to notice it with the human eye? - I very much doubt it!