If you have an HDTV but have standard definition cable, will the picture look distorted or fuzzy?
2007-11-26 04:34:06 · 6 answers · asked by Jared P 5 in Consumer Electronics ➔ TVs
THE BEST THING YOU CAN DO IS GET HIGH DEF THROUGH YOUR CABLE COMPANY, OR DIRECT TV. BECAUSE YOU ARE REALLY MISSING OUT ON HOW TELEVISION IS MEANT TO BE SEEN!
2007-11-26 05:23:33 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
If you look at a newspaper with a magnifying glass and you see the grain in the paper, smudges in the lettering, pixels in the color pictures - do you blame the magnifying glass for making the newsprint "... look distorted or fuzzy?".
Of course not. But you would be surprised at how many people blame the new HDTV when this happens.
Standard Def television:
- Was the limit of technology in the 1940's
- Was designed to fill a nine-inch tube television
- Was black and white. Color had to be added in later as an afterthought with a technique fondly called: Never Twice the Same Color (NTSC)
So blown up to 40+ inches on a high-resolution display shows how far we have come in the last sixty years.
Getting a source of HD video to go with the new TV should be mandatory.
2007-11-26 06:08:04 · answer #2 · answered by Grumpy Mac 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
it'll look the same is it does on a normal tv. you can buy an hdtv and hook it up to your regular cable box and it'll do nothing. if you have to get a new cable box with an hdmi outlet and sign up for hdtv through your cable company, costs an extra few dollars a month. but if you don't sign up for hdtv the tv will just look the same as any other.
2007-11-26 04:38:05 · answer #3 · answered by crystal_raindrop 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes because you are taking an already distorted fuzzy signal and now your looking at it with a TV capable of displaying a much higher level of detail.
2007-11-26 04:42:39 · answer #4 · answered by Broadcast Engineer 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it is a bottle neck affect. when you turn a pepsi bottle upside down to empty it, it doesn't flow too well. but if you turn an even cup upside down, you don't have to wait for it to empty, it is gone just as soon as you tilt it!
in this I mean! your cable is the neck and the HDTV is the Bottle.
2007-11-26 04:40:17 · answer #5 · answered by mit 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
yes - the SD signal does not have enough information fto fill the screen. The picturre needs to be streached to fit the screen
2007-11-26 04:37:17 · answer #6 · answered by sydney_22_f 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋