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"PawsForThought" wrote in message
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On Apr 10, 9:54 am, "Richard C." wrote:
It will NOT be the same image quality he is getting now.
A downconverted HD image is VASTLY superior to the NTSC picture
he is getting now.

I have an SD tv in the bedroom connected to a regular satellite
receiver. I also have an HD sateliite receiver but I haven't hooked
it up to this tv because I thought it would not make a difference
picture wise. Are you saying I'll get a better picture on my SD tv if
I hook up the HD receiver to it? Thanks.

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If you view HD stations, yes.
The picture will be DVD quality.

Wes Newell wrote:

Sometimes, but not often, I'll watch TB here on this computer with a 19"
monitor set to 1280x1024, but most times I watched in the bedroom at the
same resolution on another 19" monitor.

I tried that a few months ago. I had (have) a Zenith set top box (ATSC
receiver) that I was no longer using, and the cable from my attic antenna ran
right through our bedroom closet. So I simply spliced into it, set up the
Zenith with an old 19" computer display and a pair of computer speakers. In
widescreen mode, the image was just too small to watch from the bed across the
room. But in "zoom" mode, it looked incredible. It gave me the same basic
video image that an SD set would have given, but in much higher resolution.

Unfortunately, though, after a couple of months, my wife and I discovered that
we really didn't care at all about having TV in our bedroom. We simply never
watched it. So I took it out and we use the space for storing books instead.

The 19" monitor is back on a computer, and the Zenith STB is again unused. For
now. g

On Apr 10, 3:35 pm, Wes Newell wrote:
On Tue, 10 Apr 2007 07:50:01 -0700, PawsForThought wrote:
I have an SD tv in the bedroom connected to a regular satellite
receiver. I also have an HD sateliite receiver but I haven't hooked
it up to this tv because I thought it would not make a difference
picture wise. Are you saying I'll get a better picture on my SD tv if
I hook up the HD receiver to it? Thanks.

It's possible, but I'm not sure. What you should be able to get is the
full HD picture, meaning widescreen format of the HDTV program. Personally
I think it's a waste of time, but doable. If you have an HD box now, try
it and see. It could be your box won't even output a 480i widscreen
picture. You may also have to set your TV to 16:9 format. I don't to get
widscreen on my old set, but I don't use sat. or cable.

Thanks, I'm pretty sure the box will not output 480i in 16:9. Also,
the tv only has the 4:3 option.

On Apr 10, 4:11 pm, "Richard C." wrote:
"PawsForThought" wrote in message
I have an SD tv in the bedroom connected to a regular satellite
receiver. I also have an HD sateliite receiver but I haven't hooked
it up to this tv because I thought it would not make a difference
picture wise. Are you saying I'll get a better picture on my SD tv if
I hook up the HD receiver to it? Thanks.

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If you view HD stations, yes.
The picture will be DVD quality.

Thanks. I may hook it up then. Another reason I want to hook up the
high def box is because I have another SD tv in my basement that is
run from the bedroom's satellite box via a diplexer. The only
downside is I can't change channels on the basement tv since the box
is in the bedroom upstairs. But I think the high def box has the
option to make the remote RF, so I'm thinking if it's RF, maybe if I
took the remote down the basement, I could change channels on the
receiver in the bedroom.

On Apr 11, 6:58 pm, JimK wrote:
If your going to use a vip 622, it does 480i out on component and
s-video,- Hide quoted text -

Thanks, but I have Directv and use an H20.

PawsForThought wrote:
On Apr 11, 6:58 pm, JimK wrote:
If your going to use a vip 622, it does 480i out on component and
s-video,- Hide quoted text -

Thanks, but I have Directv and use an H20.


The H20 puts out 480i on S-video and composite. Both HDMI and component
outputs can also be set for 480i.