Buying My First HD TV & Need Help

From what I understand while there's not always a huge difference, component can't handle 1080p so you would definitely want HDMI for blu-ray, plus the ease of having one cable is nice.

Speaking of Blu-ray's. Can a blu-ray player also play regular DVD's?

Speaking of Blu-ray's. Can a blu-ray player also play regular DVD's?

absolutely

Only problem is cable blows vs DirecTV when it comes to their HD offering, both in number of HD channels and picture quality.

He probably could have sweet talked them into a free upgrade or a few months worth of free movie channels, but telling them to F off probably isn't the best route.

We as a group have had this fight quite a few times and IMO Comcast has better HD programing vs. DTV, plus HD On Demand. I have had both and I gladly stay with Comcast, well at least until FIOS comes.

Speaking of Blu-ray's. Can a blu-ray player also play regular DVD's?


Yes and buy your HDMI cables on-line not in the story, the difference in price is night and day.

Thanks that's what I thought.

We as a group have had this fight quite a few times and IMO Comcast has better HD programing vs. DTV, plus HD On Demand. I have had both and I gladly stay with Comcast, well at least until FIOS comes.

Comcast has more HD channels?

I'm just going off my experience with Time Warner, they're pretty piss poor.

Comcast has more HD channels?

I'm just going off my experience with Time Warner, they're pretty piss poor.


Time Warner is what my in laws have and it is awful and they have the option to switch to FIOS but don't do it becasue they have just always been with TW, blows my mind!

Anyways the whole who has the most HD channels is hard to nail down because everyone of them counts HD channels differential. Basically it all boils down to marketing gimmicks.

Comcast has amped up their HD lineup significantly, however, they cram as many channels into one thread as they can, and it tends to degrade the signal. At least they used to. I'm happy with my service from Comcast, just not happy with price. I'll be calling their customer retention line here soon to see what kind of price breaks I can get.

Ok, so I bitched enough and they are going to hook me up with a new HD/DVR receiver and up grading my other receivers.

Only problem is cable blows vs DirecTV when it comes to their HD offering, both in number of HD channels and picture quality.

He probably could have sweet talked them into a free upgrade or a few months worth of free movie channels, but telling them to F off probably isn't the best route.

Really? That's not the case in my area. Comcast has every channel in HD and the beauty of it all is HD cable channels are pegged to east coast time.

Always be nice but don't settle for nothing. Call in another time if you have to.