Just Bought An HDTV! Need help!

[AVAFREAK182]

Just bought a little 19" Polaroid LCD HDTV for my room. I have charter cable, and the picture is kinda snowy. How do I make it look good? Do they make upconverters?

 

[toekramp]

Originally posted by: AVAFREAK182
Just bought a little 19" Polaroid LCD HDTV for my room. I have charter cable, and the picture is kinda snowy. How do I make it look good? Do they make upconverters?

are you just watching SD? SD is gonna look pretty worse on an HDTV then it did on an SD TV.

 

[axelfox]

Do a channel scan.

 

[Yossarian]

you have to get HD cable service for your HDTV not to look like ass

 

[altonb1]

Are you feeding coax directly into the TV, or are you using a cable box?

Go to your cable company office and get an HD box and things should improve. Of course, if the snow is because your signal is degraded, you need to fix the signal feed itself first.

 

[Pabster]

Regular cable will look bad. Not terrible on 19", but bad.

 

[RossMAN]

Does your "HDTV" have a QAM tuner?

 

[teddyv]

HiDef with a cable box, it is all about the cables. Regular coax = looks like crap. Component cables = looks great. HDMI = FTW.

 

[bigrash]

You have to add HD service from your cable provider instead of regular service.

 

[jonnyjack]

if you don't have a QAM tuner, connect "rabbit ears" to your ATSC tuner and get free OTA HD. if you don't have an ATSC tuner then that means you have an HD monitor and not an HDTV and you need to call your cable cable provider like others have suggested.

 

[DarkThinker]

Picture is snowy you say?
That's an easy fix, just push the wipers button on the remote every 10 seconds, that'll fix it

 

[TwiceOver]

Originally posted by: toekramp

Originally posted by: AVAFREAK182
Just bought a little 19" Polaroid LCD HDTV for my room. I have charter cable, and the picture is kinda snowy. How do I make it look good? Do they make upconverters?

are you just watching SD? SD is gonna look pretty worse on an HDTV then it did on an SD TV.

My SD looks better on my HDTV.

Anyway... Did it look "Snowy" on an SDTV? If so then a line problem. If not, then throw a VCR in the path and see if it gets better/worse.

 

[I Saw OJ]

Originally posted by: DarkThinker
Picture is snowy you say?
That's an easy fix, just push the wipers button on the remote every 10 seconds, that'll fix it

/bonk

 

[eldorado99]

Originally posted by: DarkThinker
Picture is snowy you say?
That's an easy fix, just push the wipers button on the remote every 10 seconds, that'll fix it

Don't forget to pee in it!

(How's that for my 1000th post!)

 

[Regs]

Originally posted by: eldorado99

Originally posted by: DarkThinker
Picture is snowy you say?
That's an easy fix, just push the wipers button on the remote every 10 seconds, that'll fix it

Don't forget to pee in it!

(How's that for my 1000th post!)

6/10

 

[eldorado99]

Originally posted by: Regs

Originally posted by: eldorado99

Originally posted by: DarkThinker
Picture is snowy you say?
That's an easy fix, just push the wipers button on the remote every 10 seconds, that'll fix it

Don't forget to pee in it!

(How's that for my 1000th post!)

6/10

Well at least it's a pass...

 

[trOver]

Originally posted by: eldorado99

Originally posted by: Regs

Originally posted by: eldorado99

Originally posted by: DarkThinker
Picture is snowy you say?
That's an easy fix, just push the wipers button on the remote every 10 seconds, that'll fix it

Don't forget to pee in it!

(How's that for my 1000th post!)

6/10

Well at least it's a pass...

6/10 is failing at my school

 

[Alistar7]

If it is snowing inside your room I wouldn't be too worried about your TV reception.

 

[BabaBooey]

Originally posted by: AVAFREAK182
Just bought a little 19" Polaroid LCD HDTV for my room. I have charter cable, and the picture is kinda snowy. How do I make it look good? Do they make upconverters?

directv worked for me...:beer: