Please help achieve HDTV without HDMI...

Lon wrote:
Our daughter bought a condo in a deal that included appliances, etc., of
which one was an LCD television set by LG: model DU-42LZ30. Online there
are excellent reviews for this ~4 year old product, but the published
specifications confirm that it lacks an HDMI input.

The off-air HDTV tuner is excellent, and for that we need no help.
However, she has a DVR "Box" from Time Warner that has video, component
video, and HDMI outputs.

The LG television set has the following inputs:

RS232 - DB-9
Component - 3 RCAs
DVI - 24 pin
S-Video - 4-pin DIN


At the moment she has the TW Box connected via component video, but the
image is definitely *NOT* HDTV-quality. What can we do to improve the
video?

Thanks,

Lon


The "display format" is 720p (vertical lines) while most people feel
that "TRUE HD" is 1080p.

You may be able to google an HDMI to s-video (or to component) converter.

Rick Merrill wrote:
Lon wrote:
Our daughter bought a condo in a deal that included appliances, etc.,
of which one was an LCD television set by LG: model DU-42LZ30. Online
there are excellent reviews for this ~4 year old product, but the
published specifications confirm that it lacks an HDMI input.

The off-air HDTV tuner is excellent, and for that we need no help.
However, she has a DVR "Box" from Time Warner that has video,
component video, and HDMI outputs.

The LG television set has the following inputs:

RS232 - DB-9
Component - 3 RCAs
DVI - 24 pin
S-Video - 4-pin DIN


At the moment she has the TW Box connected via component video, but
the image is definitely *NOT* HDTV-quality. What can we do to improve
the video?


The "display format" is 720p (vertical lines) while most people feel
that "TRUE HD" is 1080p.

You may be able to google an HDMI to s-video (or to component) converter.

I think you'd be better off - much - with a DVI-HDMI cable. You'll need
to run sound separately, but that's also easy. This is assuming the
"Component" on the TV really isn't component....otherwise, that should
work all right.

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john mcwilliams