HDTV Ready Help

[thejollypostman]

Please help me out here and check if i am right.

An HDTV has a ATSC Tuner built in and can watch HD tv channels in HD. An HDTV Ready TV cannot watch HD tv channels in HD until a tuner is bought.

However, an HDTV Ready tv can still stream say hd movies from your computer, or an hd signal from an xbox 360 via hdmi cable ( if hdmi is available on the tv that is)

Is all this correct?

[edDV]

An HDTV TV is required to have an ATSC if sold in the USA after some date back around 2006. But still an HDTV is not required to have a QAM tuner for unencrypted digital cable.

An HD-Ready TV does not have a tuner but will work in HD with HD cable boxes and HD sat boxes. To add HD over the air capability, you need an ATSC tuner like this one with HDMI and HD analog component out.

http://www.google.com/products/catalog?hl=en&q=Samsung+HDTV+tuner&um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=62...m=1#ps-sellers

The cheaper ATSC coupon tuners will receive SD and HD (18 formats) but only output SD composite or S-Video.

HD-Ready TVs had various input capability but most had at least HD 1080i analog component and 480p progressive capability. Some had DVI-D or HDMI inputs.

[thejollypostman]

So does this mean dvds will play in HD with an HDTV-Ready tv. Also, xbox 360 has a hdmi cable option to display in HD, will these work with and HDTV-Ready tv?

[edDV]

So does this mean dvds will play in HD with an HDTV-Ready tv.

No. A DVD is SD 720x480 resolution. An HD ready TV will accept 480i or 480p analog component and upscale that to the display resolution of the screen. Some DVD players will upscale in the player and output to HDMI at 1080i or 720p. The TV will then scale that to screen resolution.

Also, xbox 360 has a hdmi cable option to display in HD, will these work with and HDTV-Ready tv?

Not all HD Ready TV sets have HDMI inputs. If they do you can use that adapter. Alternately, the xbox has an HD analog component output adapter.

[thejollypostman]

ok coolio thanks