I'm in the market to buy a television & need assistance.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Well I'll be damned...thanks Jef. I'm such an idiot...I didn't even see the button there.

All good now.

Although on some SD channels I can see a flickering line at the top of the screen....like on the SD FOX channel; but in HD its all good.

[Cerevant]

To clarify on some points made in the last couple of pages:

1) The flicker at the top of the SD signal is actually the closed captioning code and/or time code - it shouldn't be visible, but the cable company is including too much of the analog picture.

2) HDMI carries a digital signal while component is an analog one.  You will probably only notice on video games or when you hook up a PC, but it does make a difference.

3) There is a difference between overscan & zoom.  Overscan is an artifact of an analog signal/analog TV (won't happen with HDMI) when the TV doesn't handle the timing of the analog signal properly, resulting in picture information being lost (picture chopped).  Zoom is a trick used to get a SD picture 4:3 to fill a 16:9 screen.  This is most useful with DVDs where you can use the zoom feature to reduce/eliminate the black bars of a wide-screen movie.

4) Know the native resolution of your TV.  Most TVs today are 720p or 1080p.  Note that a TV can be "capable" of receiving a signal at a higher resolution than what it can display - it just down-converts it.  You will get a better picture if you set the output of the device (HD box, Blue-Ray, PC) to the native resolution of the TV (even if it is 720p).

[PhillyPhreak54]

Yeah, mine is 1080p and I made sure to set the box to reflect that.

I think I have it all set up and working now. The only thing I need is a surround sound and an HD DVD player.

[Diomedes]

and a next gen game system

and get your woman a good vibrator so she doesn't miss you

[General_Failure]

Get her an OhMiBod so she doesn't have to hear you yelling at Madden.

[rjs246]

and a next gen game system

and get your woman a good vibrator so she doesn't miss you

A vibrator might actually satisfy his woman. Bad idea.


ZING!

[PhillyPhreak54]

 

I may have to go find another woman...she is locked in front of the TV more than I have been so far.

[SD_Eagle5]

I may have to go find another woman...she is locked in front of the TV more than I have been so far.

Is that how she's learning English?

[Rome]

She's like Daryl Hannah in Splash.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Nah, she was already fluent. There are still come long or complicated words that give trouble, but she has done well.

[SunMo]

I've heard of this brand until I started looking at TVs the other day, but Sceptre's are really cheap, i can't imagine they are great quality.

http://www.retrevo.com/samples/Sceptre-TV.html

[mussa]

the only words she needs to know are yes master. anything you want master and i like it in the backdoor master

[General_Failure]

Or, if you'd prefer, master can be substituted with papi.

[Seabiscuit36]

Sorny, Panaphonic

[PhillyPhreak54]

Do all TV stations not broadcast in 1080i? Each time I change the channel I get "searching for signal" message for about a second and then the screen comes up with the details in the top left. ESPN and FOX only come through in 720p.