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How do I tell if a particular model has one or three chips? Which ones by Samsung, for instance, have three?

Maybe I'm thinking of something else then. There's something they've put into recent DLPs that reduce rainbox effect, but I forget what exactly. And here's the LCoS (specifically DILA) I was considering: http://www.amazon.com/JVC-HD56FN97-1...&s=electronics If anyone has used this...

Eric, I've heard of tvs that can do 1080p over the VGA connection. Might be just LCD and DLP though. I know the Sony SXRD tvs don't though, it maxes out at 720p. Does anyone know if the JVC HD-ILA tvs do 1080p over VGA?

That's one thing that concerned me, the rainbow effect. But does this set have a 3-chip design intended to reduce it?

I'm in the market for a big screen tv under $2K and am leaning towards either DLP or LCoS. The DLP I've been considering is the Samsung HL-S5687W, but I was wondering how LCoS compares in contrast and picture quality. Black levels are an important consideration and I've read some reviews which...

Practically all widescreen movies will still give you black bars on the tops and bottoms. Most movies are shot at either 1.85:1 or 2.35:1 and a widescreen tv is 1.78:1. They'll be far less noticable on a widescreen tv than on a standard 4:3 tv though.

Well I was half-wrong but Steve basically answered the question. They do make TVs that can do 852x480 but are enhanced definition (progressive), not standard.

That would basically require you to have an interlaced display capable of around 856x480, and I don't think any such thing exists.

Glad I could help. You could hook the xbox up to the receiver, but if you've got the VCR in there too, then at this point it might not have any video inputs left anyway. If your inputs on the cable box are still free, that works too, but you'd have to look in the manual to see how to tell the...

Hooking up the DVD player is similar. Depends on what outputs it has though. Connect a video cable from the player's output to the 'DVD' input on the receiver. In your case, this will probably be composite video again. For audio, if possible connect a digital audio cable from the player's...

I found a picture so I updated my reply. I think the SAT input will work fine. I'm assuming it stands for satellite but a cable box should not be any different. And no, don't keep the screw-on coax cable connected to the TV. The yellow cable takes care of the video instead. By the way...

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I guess it would help if we could see a picture of both the back of the receiver and cable box. Do you know the model number of the cable box? In any case, you can try this. First connect a video cable from the cable box to your receiver with the best possible connection. In this case, it...

Generally, instead of the cable box connected to the TV, you should just connect the box to the coax input on the receiver instead. Then, you can have another coax cable going from the receiver's coax output to the TV. Or, you might be able to use some other type of connection to go from...

Not to get too off-topic here, but I think what Philip said was right in regards to DVD being 480i. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the actual video itself stored on the DVD in an interlaced format? It's the player itself that upconverts it to a progressive signal to feed to an enhanced or...

While it's true many cables are similar, brand name cables like Monster Cable or Acoustic Research will still make audio and video sound and look somewhat better than those free cables you get with equipment. How much better really depends on the equipment though. On lower-end equipment, there...

Most of the time in dorms you would generally connect the coaxial cable directly to a TV, no cable box needed. But like drobbins suggested, a VCR can work as a tuner instead. Then you would run a composite or s-video cable from the VCR to the projector.