HDTV with ATSC HD tuner or without?

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I am considering purchasing an HDTV monitor (Samsung DLP most likely)
and am interested in the opinion of people here on whether to wait for
integrated tuners or not. I have read that Samsung is going to be
including an ATSC HD tuner in their newer Tantus line which is due for
release soon. My biggest concern is, when signals are finally
available in HD and distributed by my local cable provider (Cox
Communications), will I be able to use this tuner to decode those
signals? I am guessing that HD service will be more of a premium
package which leads me to believe that the tuner will have to come
from Cox to work on their system, much the same as with the DTV
service they offer in my area now. Is the opinion that we will all be
using a provider's tuner for sometime to tune HD signals, or rather
that an in-set tuner like all SD TVs could be used? Has anyone with
Cox service asked about this? Their web site isn't fully descriptive
on what equipment can be used. Thanks for the info.

 

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Ryan Bays wrote:
> I am considering purchasing an HDTV monitor (Samsung DLP most likely)
> and am interested in the opinion of people here on whether to wait for
> integrated tuners or not. I have read that Samsung is going to be
> including an ATSC HD tuner in their newer Tantus line which is due for
> release soon. My biggest concern is, when signals are finally
> available in HD and distributed by my local cable provider (Cox
> Communications), will I be able to use this tuner to decode those
> signals? I am guessing that HD service will be more of a premium
> package which leads me to believe that the tuner will have to come
> from Cox to work on their system, much the same as with the DTV
> service they offer in my area now. Is the opinion that we will all be
> using a provider's tuner for sometime to tune HD signals, or rather
> that an in-set tuner like all SD TVs could be used? Has anyone with
> Cox service asked about this? Their web site isn't fully descriptive
> on what equipment can be used. Thanks for the info.

Tuners for cable and OTA HDTV are different. If you have cable, most
likely you'll need a cable HD box anyway.
Clay

 

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"Ryan Bays" <rbays@angelo.edu> wrote in message
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> I am considering purchasing an HDTV monitor (Samsung DLP most likely)
> and am interested in the opinion of people here on whether to wait for
> integrated tuners or not. I have read that Samsung is going to be
> including an ATSC HD tuner in their newer Tantus line which is due for
> release soon. My biggest concern is, when signals are finally
> available in HD and distributed by my local cable provider (Cox
> Communications), will I be able to use this tuner to decode those
> signals? I am guessing that HD service will be more of a premium
> package which leads me to believe that the tuner will have to come
> from Cox to work on their system, much the same as with the DTV
> service they offer in my area now. Is the opinion that we will all be
> using a provider's tuner for sometime to tune HD signals, or rather
> that an in-set tuner like all SD TVs could be used? Has anyone with
> Cox service asked about this? Their web site isn't fully descriptive
> on what equipment can be used. Thanks for the info.

There's a new standard called CableCARD where your cable provider gives you
a card that you stick in your tv and then you will no longer need a cable
box. I believe the Samsung TVs coming out later this year will be CableCARD
compatible.

If you wait for this then make sure you're doing it for the right reasons.
I believe the sets that have the integrated ATSC/QAM/CableCARD will be
several hundred dollars more expensive. If you're thinking it's going to
save you a lot of money in monthly rental fees for a digital cable box, it
most likely will not due to the large upfront cost. It certainly would be
nice to be able to just plug your cable right into the tv though!

 

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In addition to waiting for the "Cable card" version mentioned previously, you may want to check that you're able to display all the transmitted pixels. For any fixed pixel display that would be 1080 lines each with 1920 pixels or 2 megapixels total.

"Ryan Bays" <rbays@angelo.edu> wrote in message news:860ceeab.0405090952.6bfe6b21@posting.google.com...
I am considering purchasing an HDTV monitor (Samsung DLP most likely)
and am interested in the opinion of people here on whether to wait for
integrated tuners or not. I have read that Samsung is going to be
including an ATSC HD tuner in their newer Tantus line which is due for
release soon. My biggest concern is, when signals are finally
available in HD and distributed by my local cable provider (Cox
Communications), will I be able to use this tuner to decode those
signals? I am guessing that HD service will be more of a premium
package which leads me to believe that the tuner will have to come
from Cox to work on their system, much the same as with the DTV
service they offer in my area now. Is the opinion that we will all be
using a provider's tuner for sometime to tune HD signals, or rather
that an in-set tuner like all SD TVs could be used? Has anyone with
Cox service asked about this? Their web site isn't fully descriptive
on what equipment can be used. Thanks for the info.