Well my TV can with a HD Ready sign, so im assuming its ready for HD just doesnt have a HDMI Slot!
Component, VGA, DVI, and HDMI are *all* capable of carrying HD signals. The signal with the latter two will be slightly better, but they can all carry an HD signal.
jtown said:
I don't really agree about this. There are still things that are murky.
1) There is no standard for cable transmission of HD that anyone is paying attention to, for instance, which doesn't require a set-top box from the cable company. CableCard was supposed to address that and flopped.
2) The HDMI standard, for the time being, continues to be a moving target.
3) There are a large number of televisions in homes that are High-Def that don't have HDCP. Even if this has changed and newly marketed televisions get this right, this is such a major issue that a number of high-def media providers agreed to disable use of HDCP on their product because of fears of incompatibility.
4) With respect to the pure cabling and digital/analog situation, I generally agree that this information is readily available (e.g. what is different / the same between component, VGA, DVI, and HDMI). However, there are still wide reports of device-device incompatibility... e.g. two devices refusing to communicate using one of those four standards at a resolution they both support, but being willing to do so on another. In particular VGA and to a lesser extent DVI seem to not yet be uniformly implemented between video card manufacturers and TV manufacturers.
I'm not an idiot...I'm a smart person. With a masters' degree in engineering. And before and since I bought my HDTV, I've done a lot of research. At this point, I understand a lot, but not everything. Given the amount of time I've sunk into trying to understand it, I'd say that it's murky in the sense that it is not transparent to the average consumer.
That's ultimately necessary -- if HDTV is truly going to replace traditional NTSC sets in the US, people with IQs of 85 or 95 need to be able to understand it. Right now people with IQs of 125 or 130 are having difficulty. That says murky to me.