HDMI ?
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- cheekyloulou0
Oh, it's the cable company.
I have the HDMI cable and the HD source/cable box but I'm only getting fair to good signal. SO Comcast is sending someone out on Sunday - SUNDAY? - to check it out. You know... sometime between 2 and 5 PM....
My husband is sticking with the logic that the new TV is just so awesome that we can see just how crappy cable looks now... I'm not sure this is a clear advantage over the old, less awesome tv.
- mitee_0
Ok im no expert but here is my quick "i went thorough this" guide:
If you have a TV that supports 1080P (people sometimes refer to it as true high def) you need the following to make it work right.
1- An HDMI cable.
2- A HD Source.So, If you have cable, the you will need to upgrade your box to a HD cable box. You will also need to pay for and upgrade to a HD package to get the HD channels. This is the same for satellite.
For DVD/HD media:
You will need a HD player, like Blue-Ray or HD. Get Blue Ray, HD is dying. HDMI cable. You blue ray player will upscale your current DVD's to 1080P using software.If you dont want to spend the $$ on a BlueRay player, you need to buy a Upscaling DVD player. These go for about $60-$150. You will also need a HDMI cable. make sure the DVD player upscales to 1080P.
If you have this set up and your picture is crappy, then contact your cable company, cause it shouldn't.
- enjine0
i am having the same problem. going to try this tonight:
http://www.bigpicturebigsound.co…i guess it's best to turn your tv on before the cable box, so that the cable box can recognize the display's resolution capabilities. if it can't determine how high the resolution can go, it defaults to 480i (shit)
- radar0
you need a digital cable box!
- BattleAxe0
Here is a different question , I have an HDMI screen , no coax inputs, are I do not have cable or sat. I just want basic TV , are there antennas that have hdmi in/outs , i googled and did not find many
- cheekyloulou0
Ok, I hope someone is going to respond to this. I think I'm following what you all are saying... I'm one of the complaining wives who is not smitten with the new 40" Samsung LCD TVs b/c my cable channels look terrible. We have a new box and new component cables from the box to the tv and other than the HD channels and DVD's the picture looks worse than my smaller lower quality tv. So, is it the "wonderful" people at Comcast shoving everything through too many cables or what? Supposedly we will have HD channels here in a month or so (read 1 year) will this improve the quality of the picture??
Thanks!
- joyride0
http://www.amazon.com/2-Meter-HD…
For $0.26? me and my buddy just ordered a few... will let you know how it goes
- fooler0
I bought that 42 Sharp Aquos and had the same problem until COMCAST told me I needed to upgrade by cable box and service plan. At first I felt ripped off but the picture looks great now!
Have you upgraded the cable box?
- nope never upgraded...they swapped out my old DVR box for an HD-DVR box, so I wouldn't think I am in need of an upgrade, I'll call to make sure
rodzilla
- nope never upgraded...they swapped out my old DVR box for an HD-DVR box, so I wouldn't think I am in need of an upgrade, I'll call to make sure
- ornj0
Trace back the cable. We found that the dipshit from comcast had put all sorts of filters/splitters on the cable going to my grandparent's house and when we removed it the picture was clearer than ever.
- rodzilla0
actually figured out what the "problem" was. pretty stupid actually. the cat thinks its fun to crawl around on the cables and wiggled loose the connection on the box itself. The HD channels were fine, but the regular cable ones were fuzzy, weird, but I tightened it and presto perfectly fine again.
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- chossy0
probably cause the SD picture your normal cable gives is pretty much twice the size of it's native resolution on your HD telly, the only advantage of these HD tV's is if you have an HD signal for all your stations :)
- Yup... and your cable companies native compression rate for its signal.
blackfrancis - that's "company's"... duh.blackfrancis
- thats true blackmamba virgins compresion settings are ghey whereas skys is not ghey (UK)chossy
- Yup... and your cable companies native compression rate for its signal.
- djurizen0
I have a 42" panasonic plasma, and I found that component out of the cable set top box just looked better than HDMI, but my DVD player looked great with HDMI. I think you have to just plug in and see what looks best... check this article, it helped me out when i bought my set, and had the same questions ... http://forum.ecoustics.com/bbs/m…
- Read that last night, thanks! I was just seeing if there were any more findings, since that article was kind of old.rodzilla
- seed0
I recently got an LCD tv and it really made it more clear how poor my cable signal is. It is very grainy and has heavy ghosting. The ghosting is even more apparent on text. That makes sense about the compression.
- In my experience, ghosting is usually a byproduct of poor shielding on the connector cables. (not the coaxial)monNom
- joyride0
hdmi is a digital signal, so if the cable was missing info, you would see black boxes on the screen. HD cables, or component cables, are analog, they could degrade the signal. Is your tv trying to upconvert the signal? is it really grainy or just not crisp like HD
- I know it won't be as crisp, but its fuzzy/grainy. It's not upconverting, I have an HD Box. The cord is only 3ft. I am going to plug the HD cables back in and compare the two, it didn't seem to be as grainy with the HD cables as it does with the HDMI.rodzilla
- sung_konajalinejox0
digital cables like hdmi and dvi can't really work bad unless it's a really long cable. either they will work or it won't. so it's not your hdmi cable. maybe it's the hdmi port on the cable box that's bad.
- tkmeister0
the standard definition is 480i. HD is 1080i. so when you watch SD on your 1080i HDTV, you are stretching the SD image to fit to HD dimension and that's why it looks grainy. Some HDTV handles SD better than others but native 1080i content always look better.
- Not sure that further explains why my the TV looks more grainy when using the HDMI cable vs. the HD Cables.rodzilla
- I thought the HDMI cables were supposed to give a better overall picture/sound?rodzilla
- i think i misread something. HD cable usually shows more flaw when the signal is not high. maybe that's why.tkmeister
- ok_not_ok0
is your TV 1080i/p?
- sung_konajalinejox0
cable has limited hardware and bandwidth compared to satellite and fiber optic. to compete, cable companies have been adding more HD channels by haevily compressing all channels. right now on cablevision, all channels look terrible. the hd channels look worse than copies I can bitorrent.
- Raniator0
Yeah, sorry, I wasn't assuming you didn't know the difference...
It's a bummer... I got a better 'resolution' picture out of Sky on my old CRT TV, but the colours are much much clearer and brighter on the LCD. It's a bit strange how this new technology can make existing digital TV technology look worse, but hey, you can't have it all...
- Raniator0
Digital and HD aren't the same thing.
On an LCD TV, HD should look very good. I've got Sky and the picture is pretty shitty on my LCD, but HD games and Blu-ray content through my PS3 look awesome.
- Yeah, I know they are not the same thing. My 360 looks amazing on the TV and so does the picture of the HD channels.rodzilla