What is the best connection to use from my cable box to TV?
Mrmojo6068 asked:
Currently I have a coax cable connecting my digital cable box to my TV. I recently found out that this is not the best connection. It appears that I do not have HDMI or component ports on my cable box but I do have an S-video port. Should I connect the cable box to the tv by S-video? If I do so, will I also need to connect the two with an audio cable?
Currently I have a coax cable connecting my digital cable box to my TV. I recently found out that this is not the best connection. It appears that I do not have HDMI or component ports on my cable box but I do have an S-video port. Should I connect the cable box to the tv by S-video? If I do so, will I also need to connect the two with an audio cable?
I don’t understand why any connector (hdmi, component, s-video) from my cable box to tv would improve the connection over coax. The cable line (from the outside) that goes into the cable box is coax. Why would it improve if the cable goes through the coax and then one of the above connections??? Isn’t the quality already diminished due to the coax cable from the outside??? I’m a bit confused…thanks!
PS: I have a 50″ Sony WEGA (720p) projector
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It is called digital cable for a reason. This means it comes through as the best picture possible or it doesn’t come through at all. The coax is having a digital signal sent over it, so the quality is not diminished.
Now for the coax from the box to the TV: it is analog because most TV’s that have a coax cable don’t have a digital receiver (they have to make this sacrifice for older TVs).
The component and s-video are also analog, by the way with analog the better the cables you get the better the picture.
The HDMI is the best because it is the only connection that is digital out of the group. The HDMI is digital: best picture possible or no picture.
The HDMI is the only connector that can support 1080p (the best picture available to consumers to date).
Most newer TVs (LCDs, Plasmas, and DLPs) have HDMI ports.
Learn about HDMI here: [who]
It depends on what type of TV you have. If you have a regular (non-HD) TV and it has a S-Video connection, you will get a better quality picture (480 lines vs 320 lines).
For high definition TV’s (measured by pixel count), HDMI and component are capable of providing the necessary bandwidth to display this higher resolution picture. If you have a HD tv with HDMI you will not need the audio cable. If you are hooking up with component, then you will since component does not carry audio content.
The coax coming in from the outside carries BOTH analog and digital content. The coax going to your TV right now is only carrying analog, low resolution content. Using HDMI or component will give you digital, high resolution content.
NOTE: Component is also analog, but it is capable of carrying the higher resolution signal. [who]
First off you NEED a HD box from your cable company.Then you need a HDMI cable or Component Cable (red,blue,green) with audio(red,white). Both will give you better picture than you have know. HDMI does audio and video
Digital cable is sent to your box via numbers 0’s and 1’s which you cable box “converter” translates into a picture. [who]
The order of quality of video cables is
HDMI > Component (red,green,blue) > S-Video > Composite (yellow) > coaxial (round cable out of wall)
Only HDMI and component cables can support HD picture quality. On a 720P TV, you would pretty much get the same picture quality out of component cables as you would with HDMI. [who]