More specifically, are there some HDTV's with which you dont need to have a HD cable/Satellite box? Are the options only useful when considering OTA broadcast? Which option is best for most users? and why?
2006-08-23 13:39:46 · 2 answers · asked by Brad 2 in Consumer Electronics ➔ TVs
"HD Ready" means the set is basically a video monitor only for HD material. It does not have a tuner to receive over the air (OTA) digital broadcasts, but will receive regular analog broadcasts.
"ATSC" means "Advanced Television Systems Committee" which is the group that set the standards for digital broadcasting in the U.S. These standards include high definition and standard defintion (HD and SD) formats. For consumers, ATSC is used to refer to the digital tuner in a set, e.g. "this set has an ATSC tuner". That means the set can receive digital broadcasts, but does not necessarily mean HD. However, for all practical purposes, any HD set that has an ATSC tuner receives HD programming.
"HD Tuner" is an ATSC tuner that will receive the HD part of ATSC standards. As I said above, all HDTV sets with ATSC tuners have HD tuners.
"HD Monitor" is like an "HD Ready" TV; however if it's called a monitor it is likely not to have any kind of tuner, analog or digital.
An "HD Ready" TV or "HD Monitor" can be connected to a digital cable box or satellite receiver, and does not need any additional boxes to work with these.
All of these issues are becoming moot since the FCC requires new sets to come with built-in tuners. If you buy a late model HDTV set, it will have a tuner. "HDTV ready" is going to disappear.
2006-08-23 14:07:16 · answer #1 · answered by gp4rts 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
HD waiting is an same aspect as HD waiting and HD waiting signifies that it may play HDTV once you've a tuner to apply with the television the HD Tuner is what you employ to furnish the HD on the television as an party... shall we are saying 'this television is VCR waiting' which signifies that the television is able to play a VCR on it, even with the undeniable fact that it doesnt have a VCR, so once you purchase it you ought to bypass out and purchase a VCR as a thanks to play it on the television now in case you purchase a VCR, you may apply it on your VCR waiting television to play tapes on it and in case you get a television that has HD and isnt HD waiting its kinda like getting a television with a equipped in VCR the position you dont ought to bypass purchase an more desirable aspect no prob
2016-11-27 01:34:30 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋