How do you know if your tv is HDTV ready or not? I think that when we bought our tv (just a few yrs ago) that they told us it was HDTV ready. DH says no. So I'm wondering is there some way to tell?
I thought all hdtv's were hd ready - the only thing not ready for us was not having an hd box from twc. (same for dish, too)
What I mean is that this is an ordinary TV. But when we bought it, they were explaining that in 2009 that everything would be converted to HDTV, and I thought they said that ours was 'HDTV ready', meaning that you can get the 'box' to be able to use it and not have to buy a new HDTV.
If it is, your "in" connection will have a set of four RCA sockets named "Composite" (not counting the audio connector). They will be colour-coded with red/green/blue/yellow (the audio cable will have two, red and white). A socket will look like this: This cable will plug into them (the plug shown includes the audio cable)
personally never seen a composite cable that had 4 connectors all of the actual component video cables I have seen were always a single connector. Most component only have 3 which would be RGB. Incidentally just because a tv has the component or composite inputs does not make it an HD set not an HD ready set. I have a TV at home in my shop that was built in the mid 80's that has both coax and component inputs and there is no doubt that it is not an HD set. While my Sony that I bought in the 90's has component, s-video, composite, and coax inputs and is not HD. My new lcd that we just bought is an hd set with a built in hd tuner for over the air broadcasts, 2 sets of HDMI inputs, 3 sets of component inputs (3 rca type connectors consisting of rgb), 2 sets of s-video, 2 sets of regular component (single RCA type plug) inputs as well as a sVGA input. Craig
Oops, I said "composite" (which is one connector, and the "normal" one used for regular cable) but I meant "component" (which is four). Yes, there is the normal red/green/blue, but you need the fourth (called "Sync") which is used (as the name says) to sync the video. There are some systems out there which do use a three cable RGB, which has "SyncOnGreen" (the sync signal is sent with the green signal), but they are rare and not used for HD.
Actually just because something is in widescreen format (16:9) doesn't mean it is HD or HD ready, only that the picture is formated for the 16:9 ratio. This link provides info. to such information. http://www.crutchfieldadvisor.com/ISEO-rgbtcspd/learningcenter/home/aspect_ratio.html So just because a tv is 16:9 or widescreen doesn't make it HD or HD ready. Though if you have a HDTV it is 16:9 automatically. Craig
