HD on an LCD?

[IeraseU]

It's not worth it to get a PCI tuner card just for OTA channels in my opinion. You really want premium HD content, HBO, Showtime, HDNet, HDPPV, ect.

 

[SGtheArtist]

I agree that OTA is not worth the effort,

In my situation I would have a lot of antenna work in order to get the few channels offered in HD. On top of that the weather will effect the OTA transmissions. Finally, the stations don't always broadcast in HD some times they broadcast in lower standard SDTV during non-prime time events & during the day.

In addition the cost of HDTV Digital Cable/HDTV Satelite TV is cost prohibitive for a low-end user like myself.

 

[JayhaVVKU]

Ok, I think I would agree that just getting the big local channels in HD is not really what I was interested in.

Mostly channels like ESPN HD(for football, etc.) and movie channels etc are what I would be looking for. So I get the digital HDTV cable box, what would I need to make the 2005FPW show these channels from the box in HD? Since VGA adapters and pci cards will not work, how do I go about this if at all?

 

[Fox5]

Originally posted by: Peter
Component to VGA adapter: Not Working. Unless the display is designed to accept Component input on its VGA plug - if it did, it'd say so on the box. Mind that the cable isn't doing any signal conversion.

It'll work for CRTs as long as they support the proper resolution.(btw, a transcoder does convert the signal, I'm not just talking about the little dongles you get with video cards, I'm talking about the ~$80 external and powered boxes you can buy)

However, 1280x720, even in VGA format, is not recognized by the monitor. A video card is capable of buffering the image to make it work, but I have an option on my video card to output a 720p image without buffering it over DVI and it won't work either.

The L90D+ only recognizes these resolutions...
640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x960, and 1280x1024.

 

[SGtheArtist]

Since you have decided to pursue the HDTV Digital Cable option I would recommend that you contact your cable provider and acquire all the details about the supplied hardware for the HDTV Digital Cable package they offer.

Once you have this information you can determine if the LCD screen you have chosen will work or if the transcoder will be necessary.

More than likely the cable box will have componet (Y-Yp-Yr) output for the video signal this is NOT the same as RBG. (Ask the cable company what video output ports the box has.)

You will have to check to see if your display can accept the video output format with a corresponding input format. [ex. Component Out (on the box) goes to Component In (on the display)].

 

[IeraseU]

The big problem is the lack of a component input on the 2005. This is somewhat difficult to get around. The 2405 or an LCD TV would have component inputs which would make the whole thing much simpler, IMO.

Without component inputs your left trying to either find a PCI component input card (expensive) or a component to VGA adapter which may or may not work.

 

[JayhaVVKU]

Well after some searching it appears the 2005FPW will support component to VGA, and push 720p HD as well. Sounds like we have a winner and I appreciate the advice guys.

 

[Fox5]

Wait, component to VGA adapter or transcoder? I'm assuming transcoder.

BTW, to be on the safe side, might be worth it to pick up the NextVision N6. It's an HD scaler of some sort, it is capable of receiving 480i, 480p, 540p, 720p, and 1080i and scaling the output to VGA 640x480, 800x600, 1024x768, 1280x960, 1280x1024 and maybe a few other resolutions I missed, though 1280x1024 is the max. Not sure how well it works, but it seems like it guarantees that the HD content will work. I believe it may only support HD through the component inputs though. It runs around $200.
There's also two higher end models, I believe the NextVision HD10 and HD12, not sure how they're different(think they support digital audio input, not sure what else), and I think run around $300 and $400 respectively.

 

[SGtheArtist]

A component to VGA will be a external transcoder box that converts the component to RBG which is in fact what the 15pin D-sub VGA is (VGA=RGB).

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[Fox5]

Here are some other options.
http://www.vdigi.com/index.php?option=content&task=blogsection&id=4&Itemid=27
The VDigi, if you have an xbox it comes with everything you need to hook it up.(audio adapters and component cables)

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16815116003
And the NextVision N6, it's a scaler which might be needed if the monitor doesn't natively support HD formats, which I think most LCDs won't, though wide screen LCDs might be different.(you can try it with your computer, my nvidia video drivers have an option to force HD resolutions over DVI, only 480p works for my monitor)
And as I said before, there are two higher end versions of this scaler, but Newegg doesn't carry them and I'm not sure how they differ.

 

[SGtheArtist]

I think HDTV & HD-DVD are & will be too expensive and limited in availablity to invest in for the near future.

If they can get HDTV cable packages down to the cost of the current basic cable package then maybe I'll invest in the screen & other hardware. Until then it is a luxury.

 

[Fox5]

Well, Xbox360 will be doing 720P as standard in all games, and for many monitors(especially LCDs) a transcoder won't be enough to get a picture, you'll need something like the NextVision N6 to scale the image.

Anyhow, I've been looking at the higher end models, I think the HD10 is discontinued but not sure what is different from it and the HD12, and anyhow the HD12 has digital audio inputs(why? just plug right into the audio system) along with an HDTV tuner and it supports HDCP.(are over the air HDTV signals protected by HDCP?)

 

[SGtheArtist]

I dont believe the OTA HDTV broadcasts are HDCP proctected since the HDTV tuners for PC's are essentially decoders for HDTV. I think the cable companies & satelite companies will be using this though.