I have found a Plasma TV that I am willing to write a ridiculously
high check for. The Pioneer PRO-150D is Pioneer's flagship Plasma
that supports 1080.
http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/pna/v3/pg/kuro/product/details/0,,2076_310069729_477134674,00.html
Oddly enough, I have been waiting these last four years for prices to
come down, and here I am buying at the very high end. Of course, I
will wait a bit until the newness of it settles down, and the price
drops a bit... I am thinking after Christmas discounts.
I currently have a Sony Wega with a Cox Digital Cable box. Cox tells
me to get a HD box will only cost me 2 bucks more per month... so
maybe I should do this now. Cox is my ISP, and I have to keep basic
cable because my 87 year old father is with me, and he could never
figure out anything like a satellite box.
I only watch a movie once in a blue moon, I never watch sports, and I
only follow one TV drama. I watch news, PBS, History, Science,
Military and National Geographic channels, all of which do a lot of
HD content now. However, I would be willing to add Direct TV to my
Cox cable, if there was a good reason. Is there?
I don't have a TIVO but I do use my PCs to record programs. I have a
collection of ATI AIW cards as well as Haupagee TV turners, but
nothing capable of HD. However, I never record anything that matters
to me with the PC turners because the quality is so much poorer then
capturing direct from the Cox Digital cable box using line in. To
accomplish this I split the signal off the Digital Cable Box and send
one off to my TV and one off to one of my AIW cards where I can
record from the S-VIDEO feed. This gives me a very good recording,
except for the deep blacks which should improve with HD.
My video card = ATI All in Wonder X800 has HD support, and Component
cable support, and my monitor = Dell UltraSharp 2407WFP which also supports HD.
Will I be able to capture the same way using a COX HD box? If I got
a COX HD box now then I would be able to record programs in HD now
using my X800? Will I be able to split the out signal of the COX HD
box to the Line IN of my AIW X800 like this, using component rather
then S-VIDEO?
And if so will I be recording HD with my AIW X800 when I do so?
The one TV show I follow is House MD. Sometimes I miss an episode so
I grab it with bit torrent. It is not unusual for the file to be DIVx
and represented as HD, for example,
Directory: House M.D Complete Season 2 HDTV Divx Eng
but how could that be as the download per episode is under 600
megs.... isn't an hour of HD 20GB?
I am HD confused so I need the collective to set me straight!
