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May 5th 07, 06:19 PM
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new tv and same look
i recently bought a sony BRAVIA™ S-series LCD Flat Panel and installed
fine, but there seem to be no difference between the old tv, 5 year old sony trinitron, and this one. i admit to not knowing even the difference beween the old tvs and new lcd flat panel tvs. i tried upgrading my cable service to higher digital grade, but it made no difference (except costing me $70.00 more a month). can anyone tell me what i need to do to improve the look? 
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May 5th 07, 06:32 PM
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Exactly what are you expecting? If it is HD TV you are expecting, then you
must have an HD signal. Jim wrote in message ups.com... i recently bought a sony BRAVIAT S-series LCD Flat Panel and installed fine, but there seem to be no difference between the old tv, 5 year old sony trinitron, and this one. i admit to not knowing even the difference beween the old tvs and new lcd flat panel tvs. i tried upgrading my cable service to higher digital grade, but it made no difference (except costing me $70.00 more a month). can anyone tell me what i need to do to improve the look?
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May 5th 07, 07:59 PM
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On Sat, 05 May 2007 09:19:06 -0700, flee228 wrote:
i recently bought a sony BRAVIA S-series LCD Flat Panel and installed fine, but there seem to be no difference between the old tv, 5 year old sony trinitron, and this one. i admit to not knowing even the difference beween the old tvs and new lcd flat panel tvs. i tried upgrading my cable service to higher digital grade, but it made no difference (except costing me $70.00 more a month). can anyone tell me what i need to do to improve the look? Drop your cable subscription. Install an antenna on your house to recieve free OTA HDTV. Or hire someone to install it. $70 more? How much is your monthly subscription? -- Want the ultimate in free OTA SD/HDTV Recorder? http://mythtv.org http://mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html Usenet alt.video.ptv.mythtv My server http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/cpu.php HD Tivo S3 compared http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/mythtivo.htm
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May 5th 07, 10:58 PM
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wrote in message ups.com... i recently bought a sony BRAVIAT S-series LCD Flat Panel and installed fine, but there seem to be no difference between the old tv, 5 year old sony trinitron, and this one. i admit to not knowing even the difference beween the old tvs and new lcd flat panel tvs. i tried upgrading my cable service to higher digital grade, but it made no difference (except costing me $70.00 more a month). can anyone tell me what i need to do to improve the look? If you don't have a cable box, and you only connected the analog input to the cable, it will look the same. If you do have a cable box, and you are either : doing the channel-3 thing, connected to the box via Svideo or composite video, you will get the same old analog picture. You need a DIGITAL cable box or DVR, and connect to the TV set either through an HDMI cable, DVI cable, or component (not the same as composite) cable. The cable box needs to be programmed so it knows you have an HD set. Tam
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May 6th 07, 01:27 AM
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On May 5, 4:58 pm, "Tam/WB2TT" wrote:
wrote in message ups.com... i recently bought a sony BRAVIAT S-series LCD Flat Panel and installed fine, but there seem to be no difference between the old tv, 5 year old sony trinitron, and this one. i admit to not knowing even the difference beween the old tvs and new lcd flat panel tvs. i tried upgrading my cable service to higher digital grade, but it made no difference (except costing me $70.00 more a month). can anyone tell me what i need to do to improve the look? If you don't have a cable box, and you only connected the analog input to the cable, it will look the same. If you do have a cable box, and you are either : doing the channel-3 thing, connected to the box via Svideo or composite video, you will get the same old analog picture. You need a DIGITAL cable box or DVR, and connect to the TV set either through an HDMI cable, DVI cable, or component (not the same as composite) cable. The cable box needs to be programmed so it knows you have an HD set. Tam this really helps. my son, just turned 12, just looked at my post and laughed. i will have to look at my cables and cable box when i get home, but i'm also reading that out of something like 700 channels on digital package i got, only like 10 is available on hdtv.(and not the Golf channel that my husband got this whole thing started for). is it worth it for me to keep paying $80.00 for this digital package service even though only 1% is actually HDTV? is the rest of the channels better with the right connection cable and the box? it seems getting an answer the one question raises another two. i'm confused.
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May 6th 07, 02:33 AM
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wrote in message oups.com... On May 5, 4:58 pm, "Tam/WB2TT" wrote: wrote in message ups.com... i recently bought a sony BRAVIAT S-series LCD Flat Panel and installed fine, but there seem to be no difference between the old tv, 5 year old sony trinitron, and this one. i admit to not knowing even the difference beween the old tvs and new lcd flat panel tvs. i tried upgrading my cable service to higher digital grade, but it made no difference (except costing me $70.00 more a month). can anyone tell me what i need to do to improve the look? If you don't have a cable box, and you only connected the analog input to the cable, it will look the same. If you do have a cable box, and you are either : doing the channel-3 thing, connected to the box via Svideo or composite video, you will get the same old analog picture. You need a DIGITAL cable box or DVR, and connect to the TV set either through an HDMI cable, DVI cable, or component (not the same as composite) cable. The cable box needs to be programmed so it knows you have an HD set. Tam this really helps. my son, just turned 12, just looked at my post and laughed. i will have to look at my cables and cable box when i get home, but i'm also reading that out of something like 700 channels on digital package i got, only like 10 is available on hdtv.(and not the Golf channel that my husband got this whole thing started for). is it worth it for me to keep paying $80.00 for this digital package service even though only 1% is actually HDTV? is the rest of the channels better with the right connection cable and the box? it seems getting an answer the one question raises another two. i'm confused. 10 HD channels sounds about right, not counting HBO and the like. Do you get the HD channels in HD? What is the make and model of the cable box? It will say either on the front, or the back. Also, look at the connectors on the end of the cables coming from the box to the TV. There should be either a single rectangular connector (HDMI), a rectangular connector and 2 round connectors (DVI), or 5 round connectors (component). There should be a button labeled INPUT, or the like, on the TV remote. Pushing that once should tell you what kind of input you are connected to. Good luck. On my digital cable here (Comcast-NJ), all the digital channels are much superior to the analog versions. Tam
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May 6th 07, 07:05 AM
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On Sat, 05 May 2007 16:27:46 -0700, flee228 wrote:
is it worth it for me to keep paying $80.00 for this digital package service even though only 1% is actually HDTV? Only you can answer that. It sure wouldn't be to me. Of course i've never had cable or sat. I watched the PGA today in HD free OTA. Most people don't realize that there's been a new broadcast standard for about 8 years now that broadcast local channels OTA for free. Almost all of primetime and latenight are in HD. It's ATSC, it's digital. It's free. And it provides a much better picture than I've seen with sat or cable. All you need is s decent antenna and an ATSC tuner (now standard in all new TV's). -- Want the ultimate in free OTA SD/HDTV Recorder? http://mythtv.org http://mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html Usenet alt.video.ptv.mythtv My server http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/cpu.php HD Tivo S3 compared http://wesnewell.no-ip.com/mythtivo.htm
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May 6th 07, 03:35 PM
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Tam/WB2TT wrote:
If you don't have a cable box, and you only connected the analog input to the cable, it will look the same. Not necessarily so. I have Cox in Orange County, California. I can connect directly to the analog cable and receive the non-premimum broadcast HDTV channels in HiDef using my set's ATSC tuner. It has to be HiDef programming that is being broadcast, of course. It looks just as good as it does coming through my Cox DVR/digital converter box.
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May 6th 07, 04:16 PM
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