Topic: HDTV Help?
started by: jim
I just got my Widescreen TV and I'm trying to integrate it with my current components.
I don't want to buy a new DirecTV reciever, because I already have a bad-ass DTV reciever with Tivo. But all the set top boxes I'm seeing have DirecTV integrated...
Grrrrrrrrrrrr.......... If I end up buying one of those, then how does my CURRENT DTV box fit into the scenario... Do I watch DTV through the HDTV box, and then simply use my other 踰 box as strickly a Tivo Box? Then I loose some of the cool features like pressing record on any program while I'm watching it!?!?! If I just use my Tivo Box then I don't get the 1080i 1200 lines of res for my veiwing pleasure... There hasta be a better way!!!!
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jim
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Ugh.... I think I'm just going to have to fucking replace EVERYTHING!!!! God Damn it!
I still need:
A HDTV Set Top Box
An Eliptal Sat Dish instead of my current round.
My current reciever only does A/V switching for Analog RCA/S Video inputs... No 3/5 wire component video switching.
My CD player is still analog
My VCR is still analog...
This shit is fucking getting expensive... Actually it's alreayd cost me 2 fortunes....
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jim
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BTW, nice choice on the tv. Mitsebishi kicks ass.
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Originally posted by Observer:
Could you list all your current components and how they are connected so it's easier to make sense of it all?
I'll start with the simplest and work to the hardest. And I'll leave out the VCR and CD Player since it doesn't matter at this point.
Source 1
DVD Player: Sony DVP-S360 Currently the L/R Audio go to the Reciever, Digital Audio to the Reciever, Analog Video and S-Video to the Reciever.
Source 2
Satallite Dish: SAT-T60 Currently has input from Antenna and from 2 Satellite hook ups. Output of L/R Audio, Digital Audio, Analog Video, and S-Video go to the Reciever.
Reciever: Has all the above inputs, controls Audio/Video Switching, has Analog and S-Video outputs to the Old TV and Analog Audio/Video Outputs to the VCR (for recording from any source)
Now when you throw a Digital TV into the mix, everything changes!!! I didn't buy this mega TV to watch everything in it's same old crappy format.
The DVD part is easy. Simply remove the Analog Video and S-Video Cable and run the YPrPb cables directly from the DVD player to Input 1 on the TV.
If I buy a new DirecTV reciever, it will be equipped with YPrPb outputs that will send digital signals from 2 satellites and the HDTV signal from the Antenna and properly convert each signal to either 480i(p) or 1080i. But then I loose Tivo?!?! I just paid 軸 bucks for Tivo and I love it!!! If I just split the sat signal and run it to my Tivo box, and then leave it run the same way it was hooked up, then I can watch whatever Tivo records, but not pause Live TV....
If I use Tivo as my MAIN Sat Watching box, I get all the benefits of Tivo, but I loose my 1080i signal for watching TV...
So unless there is a real solution to the problem, which is the point of this whole thread, it would seem I either have to watch a downgraded signal and reap the benefits of Tivo, or watch a True Digital Signal and loose the ability to pause live TV....
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Hope that helped explain things....
Detailed connection info for my new TV. < http://www.mitsubishi-tv.com/PDFs/WS55857.pdf >
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jim
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This message has been edited by jim on April 17, 2001 at 12:45 PM