HDTV Pro

ks asked: I don’t have digital cable. I know that I need to get a box from comcast to make HDTV work but do I need to upgrade my cable to digital cable as well?

Jonathan Y asked: We recently bought an HDTV and I’m going to buy an HDMI cable. Do we need to buy an upconverter for watching movies, or could we use one of our laptops instead, which both have DVD players? Will a PC have lesser quality than watching the movie through an upconverter? Are there [...]

ohboyyy asked: PC has VGA and S-Video.
HDTV has HDMI, VGA, S-Video, Composite Video Port (yellow), and the Component Port (blue, green, and red “Pr”).
Any answer is appreciated. Thank you!

April asked: I just got an SNES system because we wanted to play some old games and didn’t want to pay the money for a Wii. Well, we have a new HDTV and I can’t figure out how to hook it up and make it work. I hooked it up to the only place I [...]

gigolo asked: I have a home theater (with DVD player) and a cable recorder box connected to my HDTV. The home theater is on HDMI-1 and the cable box is connected to Component-2 (video and audio). How do I use my home theater speakers to play the audio when I’m watching cable TV through component-2? [...]

robv1 asked: I have tried connecting my laptop’s RGB output to my HDTV and get a protected content error. I don’t have an issue with actually seeing other content. This just happens when I try to play a DVD. How do I fix?

BaLLs oF WonDeR asked: I currently have basic cable through TVMAX. I have an HDTV with a built in ATSC tuner. I also have an HDTV antenna. However, my tv only has one port to hook in a cable plug. Either I have to unplug my cable to get the antenna hooked into the tv, [...]

AH asked: I have a Philips HDTV antenna which lets me get over the air HDTV channels. However, some of the channels come in great (Fox), but others come in awful (CBS). What equipment do I need to purchase to let me get some of these channels better? Or do any tips exist that I [...]

Butterfly asked: I have a really big wide screen HDTV but the downside of it is that when everyone’s in bed I’d like to turn the tv all the way down and read the captions. I can’t get the captions to work on this HDTV I’ve tried all different settings(C1, C2, T1, T2) none [...]

aardvark asked: What i mean is how long before hdtv is just the norm and no longer special? How long before it is just tv? Color tv is no longer special, it is just tv.