HDTV questions

Blueswan...can I ask you a quick favor? I just got Comcast HDTV as well. My problem is that the installer ran the component cables into my 1080i input, and the regular F-pin wire into the normal female F-pin receptor on the back of the TV. Now, when I want to watch an HDTV program, I have to change the TV input to "HDTV," which is receiving the component video signal. Then, if I want to change the channel to a non-HD program, I have to file through all the inputs until I get back to "analog," which is the F-pin, non-HD signal. Have you had this problem? Anyone know if I can do anything about it?

Thedautch, I view all channels through the 1080i input on the back of my set. The 5100 sends all channels through the RGB output. He may have set you up this way because he knows that the basic channels are a bit grainy when viewed through RGB. Try running your cable directly to the 5100, and use only the RGB. If you can live with it, as I can, you only need one video input setting on your TV. If you cannot, use the 5100's S-video out, or RCA video out, for your basic channels. You will still have to use 2 video inputs, but you will eliminate using your TV's tuner for the F-pin input.

Note 1, my Sony Wega is not a true HDTV set, it is "HDTV ready". Note 2, S-video, and RCA video, cannot carry an HD signal. Note 3, I bought the best RGB cable I could find, Tara Labs RSC... expensive, but worth every penny.

The difference between HDTV and HDTV-ready is weather or not the TV has an on-board HD decoder right?

Without the decoder you use the cablebox as a decoder?

Thanks for all the info, Blueswan! Hugely helpful!

Slappy,
Correct.