[Navydoc]

“why? rca’s have served well for like 20 years”

I’ll tell you why, because you get 3X the signal carrying capacity. Try this experiment: if your TV has component inputs unplug your RCA jacks and plug them into the component video outputs from your DVD player to your TV inputs. I use Red=Red, White=Blue and Yellow=green. The cables are the same, just colored differently. During this experiment you wont get any audio, but I want you to see the difference. If you don’t notice a substantial improvement in the picture make an appointment at the eye doctor, because you are definitely visually impaired.

This works even with a standard DVD player, and a standard def TV, as long as it has component inputs. Why? If you use RCA your DVD cannot put out any higher resolution than what a VCR can do, perhaps 320i. The DVD can do 480i if it’s standard, 480p if its a progressive scan. Couple that with the superior stability if the digital media storage format and you see why VCR’s are going the way of the dinosaur.

The more modern formats can go as high as 1080i and 1080p, but your TV has to be able to accept 1080p over component cables. Not many do, but the Sharps and the Sony XBRII’s do. HDMI is nice because it can also carry the lossless audio signal in addition to the video, requiring only one cable to the TV.

One last thing, you only need the really expensive component cables if you have a lot of electronic interference. I have achieved superb results with a $4 video cable. Expensive HDMI’s are even sillier, as it is a digital signal, either it’s there or it’s not, quality will be exactly the same as long as the signal is carried.

[Navydoc]

“why? rca’s have served well for like 20 years”

I’ll tell you why, because you get 3X the signal carrying capacity. Try this experiment: if your TV has component inputs unplug your RCA jacks and plug them into the component video outputs from your DVD player to your TV inputs. I use Red=Red, White=Blue and Yellow=green. The cables are the same, just colored differently. During this experiment you wont get any audio, but I want you to see the difference. If you don’t notice a substantial improvement in the picture make an appointment at the eye doctor, because you are definitely visually impaired.

This works even with a standard DVD player, and a standard def TV, as long as it has component inputs. Why? If you use RCA your DVD cannot put out any higher resolution than what a VCR can do, perhaps 320i. The DVD can do 480i if it’s standard, 480p if its a progressive scan. Couple that with the superior stability if the digital media storage format and you see why VCR’s are going the way of the dinosaur.

The more modern formats can go as high as 1080i and 1080p, but your TV has to be able to accept 1080p over component cables. Not many do, but the Sharps and the Sony XBRII’s do. HDMI is nice because it can also carry the lossless audio signal in addition to the video, requiring only one cable to the TV.

One last thing, you only need the really expensive component cables if you have a lot of electronic interference. I have achieved superb results with a $4 video cable. Expensive HDMI’s are even sillier, as it is a digital signal, either it’s there or it’s not, quality will be exactly the same as long as the signal is carried.

[Navydoc]

“why? rca’s have served well for like 20 years”

I’ll tell you why, because you get 3X the signal carrying capacity. Try this experiment: if your TV has component inputs unplug your RCA jacks and plug them into the component video outputs from your DVD player to your TV inputs. I use Red=Red, White=Blue and Yellow=green. The cables are the same, just colored differently. During this experiment you wont get any audio, but I want you to see the difference. If you don’t notice a substantial improvement in the picture make an appointment at the eye doctor, because you are definitely visually impaired.

This works even with a standard DVD player, and a standard def TV, as long as it has component inputs. Why? If you use RCA your DVD cannot put out any higher resolution than what a VCR can do, perhaps 320i. The DVD can do 480i if it’s standard, 480p if its a progressive scan. Couple that with the superior stability if the digital media storage format and you see why VCR’s are going the way of the dinosaur.

The more modern formats can go as high as 1080i and 1080p, but your TV has to be able to accept 1080p over component cables. Not many do, but the Sharps and the Sony XBRII’s do. HDMI is nice because it can also carry the lossless audio signal in addition to the video, requiring only one cable to the TV.

One last thing, you only need the really expensive component cables if you have a lot of electronic interference. I have achieved superb results with a $4 video cable. Expensive HDMI’s are even sillier, as it is a digital signal, either it’s there or it’s not, quality will be exactly the same as long as the signal is carried.

[Navydoc]

“why? rca’s have served well for like 20 years”

I’ll tell you why, because you get 3X the signal carrying capacity. Try this experiment: if your TV has component inputs unplug your RCA jacks and plug them into the component video outputs from your DVD player to your TV inputs. I use Red=Red, White=Blue and Yellow=green. The cables are the same, just colored differently. During this experiment you wont get any audio, but I want you to see the difference. If you don’t notice a substantial improvement in the picture make an appointment at the eye doctor, because you are definitely visually impaired.

This works even with a standard DVD player, and a standard def TV, as long as it has component inputs. Why? If you use RCA your DVD cannot put out any higher resolution than what a VCR can do, perhaps 320i. The DVD can do 480i if it’s standard, 480p if its a progressive scan. Couple that with the superior stability if the digital media storage format and you see why VCR’s are going the way of the dinosaur.

The more modern formats can go as high as 1080i and 1080p, but your TV has to be able to accept 1080p over component cables. Not many do, but the Sharps and the Sony XBRII’s do. HDMI is nice because it can also carry the lossless audio signal in addition to the video, requiring only one cable to the TV.

One last thing, you only need the really expensive component cables if you have a lot of electronic interference. I have achieved superb results with a $4 video cable. Expensive HDMI’s are even sillier, as it is a digital signal, either it’s there or it’s not, quality will be exactly the same as long as the signal is carried.

[Navydoc]

By the way, if anyone hasn’t yet appreciated the high definition video formats yet (HDDVD and Blu-ray) you wouldn’t believe how much better it is that cable OR satellite. Kid of a pain that they’re in a format war.

[Navydoc]

By the way, if anyone hasn’t yet appreciated the high definition video formats yet (HDDVD and Blu-ray) you wouldn’t believe how much better it is that cable OR satellite. Kid of a pain that they’re in a format war.

[Navydoc]

By the way, if anyone hasn’t yet appreciated the high definition video formats yet (HDDVD and Blu-ray) you wouldn’t believe how much better it is that cable OR satellite. Kid of a pain that they’re in a format war.

[Navydoc]

By the way, if anyone hasn’t yet appreciated the high definition video formats yet (HDDVD and Blu-ray) you wouldn’t believe how much better it is that cable OR satellite. Kid of a pain that they’re in a format war.

[Navydoc]

By the way, if anyone hasn’t yet appreciated the high definition video formats yet (HDDVD and Blu-ray) you wouldn’t believe how much better it is that cable OR satellite. Kid of a pain that they’re in a format war.

[Navydoc]

“is less prone to burn in(yes its still possible, just less likely),”

I suppose that depends on how you define LCD. If you include rear projection LCD’s that is true, but I was referring to a true flat panel LCD, as a competitor for plasma. You can leave a static image on an LCD display for weeks and there will be no memory of the image. That is because the crystals twist in response to an electrical current, and will completely twist back to their native state when that current is removed. If you also include rear projection in the contrast argument you are also correct, but the plasmas had the flat-panel LCD’s completely pounded on contrast until this year. They are still slightly better, but now you can really only tell the difference in the lab.

There is so much misinformation on audio/video equipment out there. I read a statistic once in Sound and Vision magazine that 70% of US DVD payers are hooked up through composite video connectors (the red, white and yellow cable that came with it). If anyone reading this has their DVD connected this way to a TV that has component iputs (or better yet HDMI) I’ll consider this post a public service. Go out and buy component cables now, you won’t regret it.

[Navydoc]

“is less prone to burn in(yes its still possible, just less likely),”

I suppose that depends on how you define LCD. If you include rear projection LCD’s that is true, but I was referring to a true flat panel LCD, as a competitor for plasma. You can leave a static image on an LCD display for weeks and there will be no memory of the image. That is because the crystals twist in response to an electrical current, and will completely twist back to their native state when that current is removed. If you also include rear projection in the contrast argument you are also correct, but the plasmas had the flat-panel LCD’s completely pounded on contrast until this year. They are still slightly better, but now you can really only tell the difference in the lab.

There is so much misinformation on audio/video equipment out there. I read a statistic once in Sound and Vision magazine that 70% of US DVD payers are hooked up through composite video connectors (the red, white and yellow cable that came with it). If anyone reading this has their DVD connected this way to a TV that has component iputs (or better yet HDMI) I’ll consider this post a public service. Go out and buy component cables now, you won’t regret it.

[Navydoc]

“is less prone to burn in(yes its still possible, just less likely),”

I suppose that depends on how you define LCD. If you include rear projection LCD’s that is true, but I was referring to a true flat panel LCD, as a competitor for plasma. You can leave a static image on an LCD display for weeks and there will be no memory of the image. That is because the crystals twist in response to an electrical current, and will completely twist back to their native state when that current is removed. If you also include rear projection in the contrast argument you are also correct, but the plasmas had the flat-panel LCD’s completely pounded on contrast until this year. They are still slightly better, but now you can really only tell the difference in the lab.

There is so much misinformation on audio/video equipment out there. I read a statistic once in Sound and Vision magazine that 70% of US DVD payers are hooked up through composite video connectors (the red, white and yellow cable that came with it). If anyone reading this has their DVD connected this way to a TV that has component iputs (or better yet HDMI) I’ll consider this post a public service. Go out and buy component cables now, you won’t regret it.

[Navydoc]

“is less prone to burn in(yes its still possible, just less likely),”

I suppose that depends on how you define LCD. If you include rear projection LCD’s that is true, but I was referring to a true flat panel LCD, as a competitor for plasma. You can leave a static image on an LCD display for weeks and there will be no memory of the image. That is because the crystals twist in response to an electrical current, and will completely twist back to their native state when that current is removed. If you also include rear projection in the contrast argument you are also correct, but the plasmas had the flat-panel LCD’s completely pounded on contrast until this year. They are still slightly better, but now you can really only tell the difference in the lab.

There is so much misinformation on audio/video equipment out there. I read a statistic once in Sound and Vision magazine that 70% of US DVD payers are hooked up through composite video connectors (the red, white and yellow cable that came with it). If anyone reading this has their DVD connected this way to a TV that has component iputs (or better yet HDMI) I’ll consider this post a public service. Go out and buy component cables now, you won’t regret it.

[Navydoc]

“is less prone to burn in(yes its still possible, just less likely),”

I suppose that depends on how you define LCD. If you include rear projection LCD’s that is true, but I was referring to a true flat panel LCD, as a competitor for plasma. You can leave a static image on an LCD display for weeks and there will be no memory of the image. That is because the crystals twist in response to an electrical current, and will completely twist back to their native state when that current is removed. If you also include rear projection in the contrast argument you are also correct, but the plasmas had the flat-panel LCD’s completely pounded on contrast until this year. They are still slightly better, but now you can really only tell the difference in the lab.

There is so much misinformation on audio/video equipment out there. I read a statistic once in Sound and Vision magazine that 70% of US DVD payers are hooked up through composite video connectors (the red, white and yellow cable that came with it). If anyone reading this has their DVD connected this way to a TV that has component iputs (or better yet HDMI) I’ll consider this post a public service. Go out and buy component cables now, you won’t regret it.

[Navydoc]

Patientlywaiting is right, those years go by much faster than you think, and you’ll be much more prudent financially as a result.

I’m fond of saying the best money is spent on education. Walking away from an underwater house is a strong business education.

When your hypothetical case scenario does rebuild their credit, it will likely be a much higher rating than they have now.

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