So your problem is that you're not getting free HD programming?
Bought an HD-TV: Waste of Money
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So your problem is that you're not getting free HD programming?
I used my Xbox to play movies all the time, no problems there. Movies don't overheat the Xbox that much since they don't take that much processing power.
I'm chagrined that the OP seems to be blaming the technology he has for his lack of enjoyment of the HD TV rather than his luddite behaviors concerning things around it.
I can't remember how many times we would get a TV return at my old job due to people thinking HDTV = HD picture. A TV is only as good as it's source. The same goes for an audio system: you can buy a top of the line 7.1 surround sound setup with fiber optic cables and 24ct gold connectors...but if you've got it all hooked up to a cassette deck from 1974...it's going to sound like shit regardless of the kick-ass system it's feeding into.
BTW I still wouldn't expect to be blown away by an Emerson even with HD source. You can find a quality Samsung 32" for close to the same price.
BTW I still wouldn't expect to be blown away by an Emerson even with HD source. You can find a quality Samsung 32" for close to the same price.
I live in an apartment building and I'm moving out in May, so I'm not gonna sign up for new services or anything and pay two installation fees in a row. Even if I wasn't expecting up-converting I at least expected the same quality, though, that's what pisses me off. My current image looks like grainy shit; the only good thing is I can actually read the X360 game text now
The games must look better as well surely. X-Box 360 is HD isn't it?
^ Yep.
Are you getting ABC, NBC etc. in HD?
TheLonelySquire
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I live in an apartment building and I'm moving out in May, so I'm not gonna sign up for new services or anything and pay two installation fees in a row. Even if I wasn't expecting up-converting I at least expected the same quality, though, that's what pisses me off. My current image looks like grainy shit; the only good thing is I can actually read the X360 game text now
Honestly, you should have done your homework. You have no one to blame but yourself in this case.
TheLonelySquire
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Did you connect your XBOX 360 to your HDTV with an HDMI cable?
I don't have an HDMI cable but I guess I'll have to buy one... I did realize beforehand that I didn't receive HD-cable but I was expecting that my *OLD* picture quality would be the same on the new TV and not this grainy shit. Well we decided just to hold onto the TV and hope that one day we'll get HD-cable, it will just have to sit in a box for five months. As for the Emerson brand, we've been using the same Emerson DVD Player for 6 years and it's *constantly* on and it never ever freezes on bad discs, so I had faith in the brand from personal experience.
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Here: Save Some Money. These are excellent cables, I promise you.
As for your TV, look at it this way: Have you ever played older games on your new PC? Have you ever noticed the graphics quality isn't quite what it used to be when you first play? Because you have to adjust the resolution to your monitor. Well, you can't do that with a regular cable signal and an HDTV. All you get is whatever the source gives you. So that once decent looking cable signal now sucks because you got a better, higher resolution TV and the signal stayed the same. It's not the TV's fault.
HDTV looks spectacular. Even my little 22" 720p HDTV and Blu-ray player shows clear, crisp, beautiful colors and images. On regular cable, it looks like someone rubbed Vaseline all over the images, but that's because cable has low, standard TV resolutions. You can, however, hook an HDTV cable receiver box up to your TV and get much cleaner, far superior to standard cable images. It depends on what you have. Also, you can get over the air HDTV signals with a simple set of rabbit ears, so try that too.
I don't have an XBox. I'm just reporting what I saw elsewhere. And later models do have an HDMI option, yes.
Check the output connectors on the back of that DVD player. Many of them, even some inexpensive ones, have three component video jacks in addition to the yellow composite video output and the red and white stereo outputs. connect those three component outputs to corresponding inputs on the TV and you might be able to enjoy a better picture (may require selecting "progressive scan" in the DVD player's settings menu).
Last year the US government was offering $40.00 "coupons" (gift card like media with a magnetic stripe) good towards the purchase of a digital to analog converter. Strict government limitations on qualified converters limited them to receiving over the air digital TV broadcasts (SD or HD didn't matter) and outputing the result in analog RF and composite (both formats look like SD on the screen). Since digital cable and satellite use different signal formats and channel spacing, the subsidized converters are only good for direct broadcaster to viewer broadcasts.
Many cable companies encrypt out of town digital channels to prevent reception by subscribers who don't pay for the applicable programming tiers. Reception of those channels may require rental of a digital converter from the cable company. Some companies will allow customers to pick up those converters at an "over the counter" customer service center for significantly less than the charges for a technician to visit the subscriber's residence to install the converter. There will probably be a modest monthly increase in the cable bill for the converter/remote rental.
Before the advent of digital cable some cable providers used hardware filters to control which analog channels were available to the subscriber's household. If those filters haven't been removed a cable company technician may have to make a visit the utility pole or distribution pedestal (for underground service) outside the subscriber's home to remove the filter before any digital services are available (including any unencrypted local channels that are available to HD or SD digital/DTV TVs).
For the near future some cable providers will be duplicating the content on some of their digital channels on analog cable frequencies. Any channels subject to those duplications may be an unscrambled format available to analog "cable ready" TVs without the use of a rented converter. Those duplicates might disappear in phases as the cable provider makes room for more digital channels (SD or HD)
Last year the US government was offering $40.00 "coupons" (gift card like media with a magnetic stripe) good towards the purchase of a digital to analog converter. Strict government limitations on qualified converters limited them to receiving over the air digital TV broadcasts (SD or HD didn't matter) and outputing the result in analog RF and composite (both formats look like SD on the screen). Since digital cable and satellite use different signal formats and channel spacing, the subsidized converters are only good for direct broadcaster to viewer broadcasts.
Many cable companies encrypt out of town digital channels to prevent reception by subscribers who don't pay for the applicable programming tiers. Reception of those channels may require rental of a digital converter from the cable company. Some companies will allow customers to pick up those converters at an "over the counter" customer service center for significantly less than the charges for a technician to visit the subscriber's residence to install the converter. There will probably be a modest monthly increase in the cable bill for the converter/remote rental.
Before the advent of digital cable some cable providers used hardware filters to control which analog channels were available to the subscriber's household. If those filters haven't been removed a cable company technician may have to make a visit the utility pole or distribution pedestal (for underground service) outside the subscriber's home to remove the filter before any digital services are available (including any unencrypted local channels that are available to HD or SD digital/DTV TVs).
For the near future some cable providers will be duplicating the content on some of their digital channels on analog cable frequencies. Any channels subject to those duplications may be an unscrambled format available to analog "cable ready" TVs without the use of a rented converter. Those duplicates might disappear in phases as the cable provider makes room for more digital channels (SD or HD)
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We went through this same issue a few months ago.
Chose to just return the tv. A wise decision, because when out local phone/tv/internet provider finally did decide to offer HD channels, they also decided to charge $8 per tv per month for the upgrade.
Not happening in this house. Apparently they missed the news of a recession...?
Chose to just return the tv. A wise decision, because when out local phone/tv/internet provider finally did decide to offer HD channels, they also decided to charge $8 per tv per month for the upgrade.
Not happening in this house. Apparently they missed the news of a recession...?
Good grief...your TV IS FINE...its the fact that the picture your getting is not up to par of what its capable of showing...its like taking a digital camera photo with the digital zoom on...its never going to look right! INVEST in an HD box.
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