Head over to the CEA Connections Guide. According to the website, its goal “is to help you decide how to connect the various audio-visual components you’re about to purchase, or how to incorporate them into your existing home theater or stereo component system.” To do this it asks what components you have (such as TV, A/V Receiver, DVD Player, Set-top Box, etc.) and what connections each supports (like HDMI, Coaxial, Composite, DVI, etc.) for audio and video, then shows you the best connection between each component.

You can find some other good information ACE Hardware. Also check out eCoustics Cables and Connectors Explained article.

A lot of people will dispute the value Monster cables, but they have some information on setup and wiring in their Connection Guides.

There is also some good advice in an ask.metafilter.com article.

The BD-P1000 supports 1080p/1080i/720p and up-converts DVDs to 1080p/1080i/720p. It decodes MPEG2, VC-1, H.264, HD JPEG video and Dolby Digital, Dolby® Digital Plus, DTS®, and MP3 audio. It plays the following disc formats: BD-RE, BD-R, BD-ROM, DVD ROM, DVD RAM, DVD-R, -RW, +R, +RW, CD ROM, CD-R, and -RW.

Video outputs include Composite, S-Video, Y,Pb,Pr Component (480i / 480P / 720P / 1080i / 1080p), and HDMI (480i / 480P / 720P / 1080i / 1080P). Audio out is 2.0 and 5.1, coaxial and optical digital.

It also includes useful side-features such as accepting memory sticks, playing video clips, photo slideshows, and mp3 audio,

The new format(s) are intriguing, but while DVD and TV formats continue to shake out over the next several months, high def DVD players like these are bound to get better better, more robust, and of course much less expensive.

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