Cheap HDTV

[c_hernandez32]

I wanted to get some info on HD TV's. Do you need to connect a HDTV set top box reciever via DVI to get the best quality signal in 1080i? I saw a cheap $500 HDTV at Walmart with 740p and 1080i cabality. It doesn't have a DVI input but it does have two compenant video inputs. Are they enough to connect a HD reciever and recieve high quality broadcasts? Don't really know much on the subject and wanted to become well versed in HDTV before spending the extra $300 bucks for a 32 inch TV. Will compenant video inputs be able to connect to future HD DVD players and HD VCRs?

Yes there are HD VCRs with D-VHS tapes that are supposed to be HD quality, but still commercial D-VHS tapes cost about $40 bucks (X-Men 2)

[g_shocker182]

Yes there are HD VCRs with D-VHS tapes that are supposed to be HD quality, but still commercial D-VHS tapes cost about $40 bucks (X-Men 2)

I saw these on TechTV. What a waste......

[The village idiot]

You could use it with a computer based HDtuner card, and then also be able to play other media files on a large TV, as well as streaming media files. Just a thought for you to consider.

[The village idiot]

I just looked at the Walmart website... That TV is still 4x3 aspect, what good is that? I would want a widescreen HDTV.

[ChrisX]

I already knew that HD DVD would come and be a matter of time. It maybe years away when prices come down. Maybe be 2006 who knows when.

I already got a DVD which is HD, "T2 - The Extreme DVD". This one can only play in a computer's DVD-ROM or DVD burner. This is true HD without the interlacing as progressive segmented frames from a HD film.

Unfortunately, my computer must be in the US and the CPU speed must be greater to view it. The specs say must be at least 3 GHz to watch it on the computer. I've watched T2 on my DVD player as a standard DVD anyway.

Recently, I got a new Pioneer DVD player, which can convert a DVD movie play into progressive view on the TV. Interlacing is removed in this format and can only work on a compatible TV. This is only possible on NTSC TV system as well.

I have to get a new TV for this one so it can be compatible with progressive view of a DVD movie.

I am planing a LCD monitor for the computer and the HDTV box receiver sharing to the same thing. When, some day?

The DVD player we know today maybe incompatible and obsolete in the future.

I heard some details the other day about HDTV coding from the US and this is a warning to future users of digital recorders receiving HDTV. In the US, a TV station may code their TV programs for copyright protection.

This would be similar to macrovision is today. However, much greater protection and encrypted just like in your computer is today.

[g_shocker182]

Like superbit...

[zzyzzx]

I'll buy one when it gets cheap enough.

[gooberguy]

go ahead call me stupid, but whats hdtv?

[zzyzzx]

go ahead call me stupid, but whats hdtv?

HDTV = High Definition TV. Basically it's TV with about twice the number of lines and I think 4X the number to dots.

Go to a Best Buy and compare the picture quality of the HDTV sets vs the non HDTV sets and it will become obvious as to why everyone will want HDTV.