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The connection is a DVI connection, you'd need some type of HDMI to DVI cable or adapter.
The Red/Green/Blue cables you're currently hooking it up with ARE Hi-Def.
I've got a rear projection that I think is 1080i Sony hi-def thats 5 or 6 years old that I bought on CraigsList cheap.
It has one "Hi-def" jack on the back that is called a DVI-HDMI jack...It looks like an old screw mounted serial jack and it has 3 rows of 8 pins on the feft side and 3 different pins on the right side that make a "T" laying on it's left side. The length of the jack on it's longer side is about 7/8".
I want to hook the TV up to a Dish Network receiver with a "new" HDMI jack, a new DVD player that says it's 1080p if hooked up with a "new" HDMI jack and a Wii and try to get hi-def on at least the TV.
The TV also has a couple of vid connections with 4 pin S-vid hookups.
Can I do this? Whats my "best" way to do this?
The TV is currently hooked up to the cable box with Red/white audio RCA cables and red/green/blue video cables. I want to add the other stuff. The cable box also has 1 S video outlet.
Thanks for any help/advice you can give me...
Last edited by CosmicCowboy; 10-18-2009 at 07:13 PM.
The connection is a DVI connection, you'd need some type of HDMI to DVI cable or adapter.
The Red/Green/Blue cables you're currently hooking it up with ARE Hi-Def.
This is right on.
Am I better off using S-video cables for the video + red/white for the Audio instead of the R/G/B cables? Is the difference really significant?
hdmi > 3 wire bs
The tv doesn't have an hdmi connection.
The question was if s-video was better than r/g/b cables
Signals in order of quality:
HDMI (DVI) > RGB (red, green, blue jacks) > S-Video (small round jack with 4 pins) > composite (usually a single yellow jack).
Except for HDMI all the other only conduct video, so you need a separate cable for the audio.
the hdmi=dvi converter plug is still better reception than the 3 color bs r/g/b....
Hdmi to DVI is not a converter since the same signal goes through. It's just a wiring adapter (takes the signals from the HDMI connector and reroutes them to the correct pins on the DVI connector). So if you look at my list above hdmi (DVI) > RGB.
Yeah. Buy a new dvi to hdmi cable. Adapters only degrade your signal. You have the money. Also buy an optical cable for your audio.
The R/G/B is much better than S-video and probably won't be significantly worse than the digital connection.
I would use the DVI/HDMI + optical sound for whatever you view most (satellite, I'm guessing?) and use the RGB + audio cables for the other stuff.
The only way you'll get HD is with the DVI or the RGB, so whatever you want to watch in HD needs to be connected to those two.
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