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Choosing the Right Connections for Your HD Products
Anyone who's seen HD (high-definition) gear in action can immediately see and hear its superior image and sound quality. However, HD performance can be affected by the connections among your components. Learn how using the right connections can help you get the best overall HD experience -- from simplified setup to achieving the best image and sound performance possible from your equipment.
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What You'll Learn
- Learn about the many HD entertainment options you can choose from
- Find out how using the right connections can help you get the best performance from your HD home theater components
Although HDTVs are easily the most visible HD product, the television isn't the exclusive domain of HD content. Learn about the wide array of HD entertainment options, such as movies, home video, gaming, and more.
Using the right connection helps produce better HD image and sound quality, and it can make setting up your home theater equipment much less complicated. This lesson shows you how.
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HD Consumer Development
Looking forward to new informative sessions.
Good info.
Learned a great deal from this lesson and know more about what I can use with my HDTV to make it an even better HD experience.
cable connectors
What cable connectors should I purchase for my new Sony LCD KDL40Z100/S? I have seen them for $14.99 to $89.00. I only need a 6 foot cable.
Also what do you recommend to keep the screen clean?
Missing Optical connection
The one thing that was missing from this course was the use of optical connections for sound. I just purchased a Sony surround sound receiver and hooked it to my Blue ray player and with HDMI and couldn't get any sound. I had to use a optical connection to transfer the sound. The HDMI only passed through the receiver.
Choosing the Right Connections for Your HD Products
It has been very helpful knowing the proper way to setup the HD tv using the correct type of cables.
One thing missing....
For the novice or those that just haven't been able to keep up with technoligical advances (me), this course was extrememly easy in helping even the most non-geek person understand the differences in cables. One thing that I was surprised to find missing was if more expensive cables were really better or is this a marketing ploy with HDTV. For example, I've seen HDMI cables from $14.99 to an astounding $79.99 for the same length cable. Is gold connectors really that much better - or better at all? I was just kind of surprised this was not mentioned, particularly with all the options in HDMI cables available on the market. Overall though, a very informative article.
Sound Problems with PS3
I bought a KDL46XBR6 and a PS3 for full HD and sound experience, however I'm pretty dissapointed since I'm only able to get Dolby Digital and/or 5.1 Ch. sound from the the PS3 to my receiver (Bose 1-2-3 GS Series III) only for games downloaded from PlaystationStore. When I'm playing regular Blueray and/or DVDs the only sound signal from the PS3 is PCM 2.0. Anyone has an idea how to solve this problem?
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