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Monday, December 17, 2012

Testing Cables To Find The Best Picture

By Amelia Shivers


When your device has HDMI output and if it was manufactured in the past 5 or so years it probably does use it. It's the easiest to set up and offers the best quality video, and you will not spend hours scratching your head, thinking why the picture in your new HDTV does not look as crisp as it did at the shop.

Purchasing Pricey HDMI Cables: Why HDMI brands don't care if you purchase your HDTV at a major electronics store, the sales rep may try to encourage you to purchase your HDMI cables there. They also might try to convince you to get high-priced, branded HDMI cables. Don't.

We've tested different HDMI cables from different companies and also retailers, and found that there's no considerable distinction for the normal client. A $3 HDMI cable you purchase on-line at Amazon.com will give you just as good a picture as a $60 name-brand cable you buy from an electronics shop.

If you are running a complicated setup exactly where the sources are more than 50 feet away from your screen, you might have to check out cables with special functions like shielding, that might make them more expensive. But for an everyday, simple home entertainment setup there is no reason to spend more than a couple of bucks in your cables.

Not Tuning In HD Channels In your Cable Box This is among those things that seems really evident, but could be easy to miss. When searching those channels, make certain you're tuning into the HD version when available.

The numbers as well as labels vary from service to service as well as market to market, but seriously consider the channel guide and also check to see if you are watching the high definition channel. On Dish Network boxes, for instance, large gray HD logos appear behind the logos of high-def channels.

On some other cable services, the channels call letters may end with "HD" to indicate they're high-definition channels. Many cable as well as satellite boxes allow you to limit the channel grid to just HD channels through a menu setting, like on the Dish Network Hopper screenshot above, if your favorite channel is not available in HD from your supplier, you might not want to make use of that strategy.

Not every channel is available in high-definition, and you may just not be able to watch your favorite programming in HD.




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