zarlor

I've had to do some searching on the internet to see if I could determine the specifics of that set. It looks like it is an analog set with 800+ lines of resolution (I'm assuming that's interlaced) and component inputs. So hooking this set up to a digital tuner would probably get you around DVD quality, at a guess, possibly better depending on what the set does with the signal. I couldn't tell for sure from what I was reading on the the sites I found. You could always try to "buy" a digital tuner from someplace that has a good return policy so you can try it out and see how it looks on some local digital OTA stuff.

As for projection TVs and HDTV, they were a match made in heaven! A true rear projection HDTV is an awesome site. They are so much brighter and better looking than the analog sets, IMHO. Not to mention it seems to me that watching HD on a direct view smaller screen set just doesn't adequately convey the high resolution nature of HD prgramming. Of course I can't say how your set will look, only how most true HD sets look.

As for being unhappy with "digital" cable, I can understand that. Heck most digital cable is still analog for at least the first 100 channels (hook that cable up to your TV and you'll still get the channels... doesn't seem very digital to me.) Even when you get into those digital channels most cable companies, just like the satellite companies, often compress the living daylights out of many of the channels to give them more bandwidth to work with. So what you get are a bunch of channels that tend to look really bad when you blow them up on a big screen TV. Quantity seems to be the name of the game with most non-OTA content providers these days, and they seem to generally care less about quality. Hopefully HD will get them to make some changes in their thinking.

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Lenny Zimmermann
zarlor@acm.org

DISCLAIMER: I am not and have never been some kind of video expert. Take absolutely everything I post (along with anything else you read on the internet) with a HUGE grain of salt! If you really want the most complete and truthful answer, go to engineering school and find out how this stuff REALLY works.