DLP Tvs advice

[kevolution]

So I got that Samsung DLP 42". My Xbox360 has never looked better and so far I am very happy. Tommorrow I am going to go pick up the HD set top box from my cable provider Time Warner (hate em) and supposedly they come with their own component cables.

The lady at Circuit City told me that using coaxil with my digital cable box will look grainy until I get the HD box and component cables. Is this true? SO far the tv picture doesn't look to hot like when I watched the Cavs game earlier today.

And lastly Component vs HDMI. I have heard that there really isn't that much of a difference, and then like Solid Snake said, I have heard that hdmi is a must. Whats the real deal here?

Next up, I'm buying that HD DVD player from Xbox. $199 is a great price and Dingo from what I hear you can play DVDs on your tv using it even if you don't own a 360!

 

[cavincali]

So I got that Samsung DLP 42". My Xbox360 has never looked better and so far I am very happy. Tommorrow I am going to go pick up the HD set top box from my cable provider Time Warner (hate em) and supposedly they come with their own component cables.

The lady at Circuit City told me that using coaxil with my digital cable box will look grainy until I get the HD box and component cables. Is this true? SO far the tv picture doesn't look to hot like when I watched the Cavs game earlier today.

And lastly Component vs HDMI. I have heard that there really isn't that much of a difference, and then like Solid Snake said, I have heard that hdmi is a must. Whats the real deal here?

Next up, I'm buying that HD DVD player from Xbox. $199 is a great price and Dingo from what I hear you can play DVDs on your tv using it even if you don't own a 360!

Is that dlp the tv best damn has been giving away during its shows?

 

[James]

The lady at Circuit City told me that using coaxil with my digital cable box will look grainy until I get the HD box and component cables. Is this true? SO far the tv picture doesn't look to hot like when I watched the Cavs game earlier today.

100% true, when i first had mine i had to wait a day or two to get the HD box, you wont even see what it can do until you get that. just wait until you get and you wont believe its the same TV. did you get the HD Cables for the 360?

 

[CornerThree]

I believe TW requires you to get the DVR box if you want one with HDMI out. As far as for HDMI, the best place I've seen to buy them is at www.monoprice.com A lot less than the store rape prices. Unlike coax or component cables, which there is a lot of variance in quality, HDMI cables are all reasonably the same. Digital signals are either received or not received, so there isn't as much potential for breakup.

The sony upconvert DVD player james has is a pretty good player. Should be around 100.

 

[bomber]

So I got that Samsung DLP 42". My Xbox360 has never looked better and so far I am very happy. Tommorrow I am going to go pick up the HD set top box from my cable provider Time Warner (hate em) and supposedly they come with their own component cables.

The lady at Circuit City told me that using coaxil with my digital cable box will look grainy until I get the HD box and component cables. Is this true? SO far the tv picture doesn't look to hot like when I watched the Cavs game earlier today.

And lastly Component vs HDMI. I have heard that there really isn't that much of a difference, and then like Solid Snake said, I have heard that hdmi is a must. Whats the real deal here?

Next up, I'm buying that HD DVD player from Xbox. $199 is a great price and Dingo from what I hear you can play DVDs on your tv using it even if you don't own a 360!

It's true, Standard tv will look bad compared to HD, regular TV is never the same, HD is that amazing.

There probably isn't much of a difference between component and HDMI, but I've always been under the impression that HDMI and DVI are better HD hookups. DVI is purely HD Video signal. HDMI is HD video and sound. Component is like HDMI, it's both

Yeah get the HD DVD for the 360, dvd's will look awesome but of course you will have to re-buy your dvds on HD-DVD to take advantage of the HD, but you might be able to play your normal dvd's on the player, just wont look as good as a HD-DVD.

My roommate has the ps3, which has the blu-ray and the blu-ray dvd's look AMAZING.

 

[CornerThree]

If you have the 360, you don't need an upconverting DVD player, as the 360 does that once you adjust the resolution output.

 

[bomber]

If you have the 360, you don't need an upconverting DVD player, as the 360 does that once you adjust the resolution output.

so the hd-dvd player that you can buy for the 360 is backwards compatible and upconverts? I figured the microsoft would rather it not be backwards compatible figuring they'd want people to buy new hd-dvd's. not bad. I would start buying hd-dvd's though, quality is amazing.

 

[kevolution]

James to answer your question the 360 comes with component cables out the box and that's what I am using.

Also that is correct about TW DVR's having the HDMI. But since to upgrade my digital box to HD box is free, I'm gonna go that route rather than pay another 13.95 a month for HD DVR.

So from what I am uunderstanding HDMI is nice but not that much nicer than watching through component cables?