By Admin on Feb 9, 2010 in General
I bought this tv used acouple of days ago and dvd’s work awesome, but the digital cable channels are really grainy. I was told to buy monster cables and get a hd comcast cable box. Any other suggestions?
The tv is a Toshiba 34HF81 34" FST Pure Flat Screen 16:9 HD-Ready TV.
Thanks
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Your info is pretty good, it’s almost funny when they say "HD ready" that means the TV is HD IF you add a HD tuner, so a hd box from the cable people or a hd receiver from the satellite people and you have a HD pic IF the signal you get is a HD signal. The signal as of 2009 will be a digital signal but that does NOT mean it is HD. Your TV has inputs S-video (probably 2 of these) and what they call HD color stream , it does not have HDMI , this is a single plug that handles the three colors and the two audio (L&R) all in one cable. So you have two to choose between, the S-video is the lesser quality of the two. Use the HD color stream , this will require five cables, get good ones, that takes care of the tv side, most cable boxes have these same outputs and are more likely to have all three of the connection types described above. Your TV probably had a setup menu that you will have to use to turn on the Color stream connections. Most very recent models will automatically sense the connections you have made. Your pic will be better than you are getting now with a plain DVD unless you have one of the very new HD DVD. Have fun.
goodforwho | Feb 9, 2010 | Reply