Another dumb question..

I just purchased a Samsung T-T2793H HDTV and it's connected to the wall
outlet (Charter Cable Basic Extended). The picture is grainy/blured at
times. When I set the auto-programing I 3 choices STD, HRC & IRC for the Air
and Cable tunings, I used STD. Did I do the correct thing or not?
Thanks in advance for any info/help.

I did some research and found some interesting and depressing info.

Cable programs are delivered two different ways.

1 With no cable box,just the cable from the wall connected to the tv.You are
getting analog signals from the cable company.These look ok on tv's smaller
than 19" but as the screen size increases the picture looks grainy.

2. With a cable box the channels from 1-99 are analog.Then the rest are
digital which will look good on any size set. For HD you need a HD cable box
which still has 1-99 as analog and digital channels but adds the HD
channels. ( cable cards can replace a HD cable box if you HD set has a cable
card slot)



People buy HD sets for access to HD channels and put up with the bad analog
channels.If you don't plan on upgrading to HD with your cable system then I
would not spend the money on a HD set.

If you watch dvds then a HD set would give you that movie experience.

You must consider what you watch and ask "Is a hd set worth it to me?"



"luckyvic" wrote in message
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I just purchased a Samsung T-T2793H HDTV and it's connected to the wall
outlet (Charter Cable Basic Extended). The picture is grainy/blured at
times. When I set the auto-programing I 3 choices STD, HRC & IRC for the
Air and Cable tunings, I used STD. Did I do the correct thing or not?
Thanks in advance for any info/help.

"luckyvic" wrote in message
...

People buy HD sets for access to HD channels and put up with the bad
analog channels.If you don't plan on upgrading to HD with your cable
system then I would not spend the money on a HD set.



WOW !!
Thanks for the newsflash !

"luckyvic" wrote in message
...
I did some research and found some interesting and depressing info.

Cable programs are delivered two different ways.

1 With no cable box,just the cable from the wall connected to the tv.You
are
getting analog signals from the cable company.These look ok on tv's
smaller
than 19" but as the screen size increases the picture looks grainy.

2. With a cable box the channels from 1-99 are analog.Then the rest are
digital which will look good on any size set. For HD you need a HD cable
box
which still has 1-99 as analog and digital channels but adds the HD
channels. ( cable cards can replace a HD cable box if you HD set has a
cable
card slot)



People buy HD sets for access to HD channels and put up with the bad
analog
channels.If you don't plan on upgrading to HD with your cable system then
I
would not spend the money on a HD set.

If you watch dvds then a HD set would give you that movie experience.

You must consider what you watch and ask "Is a hd set worth it to me?"



"luckyvic" wrote in message
...
I just purchased a Samsung T-T2793H HDTV and it's connected to the wall
outlet (Charter Cable Basic Extended). The picture is grainy/blured at
times. When I set the auto-programing I 3 choices STD, HRC & IRC for the
Air and Cable tunings, I used STD. Did I do the correct thing or not?
Thanks in advance for any info/help.




You need to do more research.
http://www.hdtvprimer.com/

A great resource but they fail to mention QAM is the modulation used on
cable as opposed to 8VSB for OTA.

"luckyvic" wrote in
:

I did some research and found some interesting and depressing info.

Cable programs are delivered two different ways.

1 With no cable box,just the cable from the wall connected to the
tv.You are getting analog signals from the cable company.These look ok
on tv's smaller than 19" but as the screen size increases the picture
looks grainy.

2. With a cable box the channels from 1-99 are analog.Then the rest
are digital which will look good on any size set. For HD you need a HD
cable box which still has 1-99 as analog and digital channels but adds
the HD channels. ( cable cards can replace a HD cable box if you HD
set has a cable card slot)



People buy HD sets for access to HD channels and put up with the bad
analog channels.If you don't plan on upgrading to HD with your cable
system then I would not spend the money on a HD set.

If you watch dvds then a HD set would give you that movie experience.

You must consider what you watch and ask "Is a hd set worth it to me?"

You might also consider trying to get free over-the-air HD.

Does your set have an ATSC tuner built in?


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Dave Oldridge+
ICQ 1800667

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"luckyvic" wrote:

I did some research and found some interesting and depressing info.

Cable programs are delivered two different ways.

1 With no cable box,just the cable from the wall connected to the tv.You are
getting analog signals from the cable company.These look ok on tv's smaller
than 19" but as the screen size increases the picture looks grainy.

2. With a cable box the channels from 1-99 are analog.Then the rest are
digital which will look good on any size set. For HD you need a HD cable box
which still has 1-99 as analog and digital channels but adds the HD
channels. ( cable cards can replace a HD cable box if you HD set has a cable
card slot)



People buy HD sets for access to HD channels and put up with the bad analog
channels.If you don't plan on upgrading to HD with your cable system then I
would not spend the money on a HD set.

If you watch dvds then a HD set would give you that movie experience.

You must consider what you watch and ask "Is a hd set worth it to me?"



"luckyvic" wrote in message
...
I just purchased a Samsung T-T2793H HDTV and it's connected to the wall
outlet (Charter Cable Basic Extended). The picture is grainy/blured at
times. When I set the auto-programing I 3 choices STD, HRC & IRC for the
Air and Cable tunings, I used STD. Did I do the correct thing or not?
Thanks in advance for any info/help.



The unfortunate fact of life these days is that most, if not all, of the
larger sets are HD today. That is both good and bad. The good is that
the larger sets pricing is steadily declining as mfgs can reduce sku's.
The bad is that SD programming doesn't look so good on widescreen sets,
and content on HD is much less than on SD.

But things are rapidly changing in these technologies and pricing.

Cable companies are not expanding HD offerings much yet, but Dish
Network has (about 35+ channels), DirecTV says '150 channels this year'
and more and more broadcast stations are going HD.

Then there is the HiDef DVD players. Still fairly expensive in
comparison to their SD DVD counterparts, but the prices are coming down
steadily.

HD-DVD (one of the standards) - Toshiba now has a $299 entry price point
for a 2nd generation player.

Blu-Ray (the other standard) - Currently approximately $500 is the entry
price into this market, tho some online offers are a bit less. There
are new 2nd Generation products announced, notably Panasonic @$599 with
5 movies included. But the specification is still in flux with a new
spec supposedly required in all new players mfg'd after 10/31/2007.
Conjecture says the older (and current) players will work fine with
discs produced after the new spec kicks in, just maybe not some of the
new features the spec brings to the table. The problem here is that the
spec is in flux with the hope that changes won't render previous stuff
obsolete.

Samsung has announced a new dual-format player, but no pricing info is
available. LG currently has a dual-format player, but it doesn't meet
full spec on the HD-DVD part, pricing is very high at $1100 or so.

The biggest problem for HiDef DVDs is the 'format war' with entrenched
studios on both sides. There are lots of movies for both formats, but
not from all studios. Arguably, Blu Ray is a better spec, but it isn't
fully defined or utilized yet.

That's just the way things are in HD these days. Much lower content
from cable/satellite/broadcast, and a format war on HiDef DVDs.

Yes it does.


"Dave Oldridge" wrote in message
9...

Does your set have an ATSC tuner built in?

Dave Oldridge+
ICQ 1800667

OK, thanks for the info, l'm still learning so all help received I really
appreciate it.


"Captain Midnight" wrote in message
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You need to do more research.
http://www.hdtvprimer.com/
A great resource but they fail to mention QAM is the modulation used on
cable as opposed to 8VSB for OTA.

MAMMAMIA !!
You're welcome!!


"Postal68" wrote in message
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"luckyvic" wrote in message
...

People buy HD sets for access to HD channels and put up with the bad
analog channels.If you don't plan on upgrading to HD with your cable
system then I would not spend the money on a HD set.



WOW !!
Thanks for the newsflash !

On Tue, 22 May 2007 14:16:36 -0500, luckyvic wrote:


People buy HD sets for access to HD channels and put up with the bad analog
channels.If you don't plan on upgrading to HD with your cable system then I
would not spend the money on a HD set.

You can get all the HD you want for free with a regular TV antenna. And it
will be better HD than you get from the cable/sat compaines. Many have
been doing it for years. You don't need anything from the cable or sat
companies for HDTV.

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