A buddy of mine is giving away his 9 year old, 52 inch screen, Toshiba TV. It doesn't have an HD Tuner built in. If I take it off his hands, can I buy an HD tuner that will allow me to be able to watch HD channels? My DVR with Comcast comes with HD channels already, I just want to know if the picture will be HD quality.
Thanks
2007-12-17 03:59:57 · 7 answers · asked by mgruhler 1 in Consumer Electronics ➔ TVs
An HD tuner changes the signal into analog and degrades the picture quality to analog.... To get true HD quality you need to have an HD capable TV
2007-12-17 04:04:50 · answer #1 · answered by ♥♥The Queen Has Spoken♥♥ 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
As long as your DVR has analog outputs (composite or s-video), you can watch HD channels on the old TV.
They will never be in HD quality; the picture should be at about the same quality as you get with a DVD player.
Buying an HD tuner will not change this. There isn't any way to send the DVRs HD output into such a tuner and even if you could, the TV itself wasn't designed to display anything better than DVD quality.
2007-12-17 13:25:44 · answer #2 · answered by Stephen P 7 · 0⤊ 3⤋
no, that is not a HD TV, as you said it doesn't have a HD tuner. it is also 4:3 and not 16:9 and the resolution is not 1080 (no more than 480 I would guess) .
2007-12-17 12:49:22 · answer #3 · answered by Jonathan 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋
it would not be as good of quality as a new HDTV, they have a resolution of 1080p (number of lines of vertical resolution) more lines the better quality the picture, a 9 year old tv would have 480i
2007-12-17 12:04:41 · answer #4 · answered by DisneyKrayzie 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
it wont be hd quality my cousin tried it sorry.
2007-12-17 19:40:41 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
yes
2007-12-17 12:03:14 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
no
2007-12-17 12:02:10 · answer #7 · answered by jake 1 · 1⤊ 2⤋