outside of hdmi cable and a good HD ready television, is there any other way to enhance the image of my hd tv?

Question

any way?

Answer 1

Okay the first person who answered your question is only half correct. But rather than going into what TV Station is broadcasting what and how, to answer your general question, the answere is yes. If your cable or sattelite company is carrying High Definition channels and you want a cheaper but comparable method of getting the best signal out of your TV without using the expensive HDMI cable, then you should pick up set of Component cables. Those are similar to the RCA style except they are made for digital signals, they are Red, Green, Blue (not Red Yellow White like RCA) Your cable box if its HD or Digital should have 1 set of component out, simply get a ength of the component cables that is necessary to go from your cable box to your TV. connect them to your component input ( 1 or 2 etc) and select the appropriate input on your TV and you should be good to go. Depending on the type of audio input your tv wants you will notice under or near the compoenent input on your TV there is a set of red and white stereo inputs for the audio
some TV's may actally have a optical input, but most likely it is justa set of analog type inputs so any red and white cable from the cable box to the TV should do. - that the only drawback to using the Compenent inputs, youa re limited to the downmixed aanalog. But the price difference betweeen HDMI to Component ccould be as high 3 to 1, HDMI delivers digital video and audio, thus the price difference. video quality between the two depends on the max resolution your TV has. If your TV is 720P native, component video will deliver the same quality as the HDMI becasue your TV can't deliver the 1080p that the HDMI will support. If however your TV is 1080i or 1080p, The HDMI cable is the better choice for best picture as the Component video will deliver quality of near 1080i but not 1080p. Hope this helps.

As for what the 1st responder said, if your at all curious. HD is transmitted in that format so that customers using a standard HD television with 720 lines of scanning can get a clear picture, will get the best picture possible as 720 is the standard. The TV's that deliver the 1080i or 1080p Take the signal and compress it then rescan it to fill all the lines (rows of pixels) so that the entire image area is used. However, if your TV is interlaced, (1080i) it really is every other line actually scans the information and displays it but on smaller ( 37" - 50") you wont notice too much diffence between 720p and1080i ( 1080P tvs are usually 50" or bigger, but there maybe a few 42" or 46" models out there.)

Answer 2

Hi. Just check, you have set your Playstation 3 to HDMI use? I had to the same with my DVD player, because some DVD players need to know, whether or not, you are using a Scart cable or HDMI cable. good luck.

Answer 3

Um, this is going to sound silly, but watch HDTV encoded programs.

Although a lot of places say "HDTV Compatible" they are not actually broadcasting the images as HDTV - they are just enhanced standard signals. It may be another 15 years before everything is true HDTV.

Answer 4

i dont know