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Cable TV, Here I Come....

romafan

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Originally Posted by Dmax
OK then. Apologies if this is going to be long but maybe it will help someone. First point - you should not be connecting anything with a coaxial/antenna/RF cable past the cable going into your cable box.
Second, Your remotes - The Cable Box remote controls which channel you are on and turns the cable box on and off. Some people leave the cable box on all the time. Your TV remote controls the sound volume and turns the TV on and off. If you haven't already, you can program the cable box remote to turn your TV on and off and to control the TV's volume. You may still want to use the TV's remote when switching inputs, from cable box to VCR, for example.

I don't know if you have a Standard Definition cable box from TW or their HD box. If you don't have an HD box you should exchange yours for one at one of the Time Warner walk-in service centers. I don't think TW charges anything extra and you have an HD TV so there is no reason not to get one. You should also consider and HD-DVR box which can potentially replace your VCR but TW used to charge $10 extra per month for it.

If you have an HD compatible box from TW then you should be connecting it to your TV through an HDMI cable. It's a single cable that carries both HD video and audio signals and has small rectangular looking plugs on both ends. Time Warner HD boxes will have a single HDMI out connector. Use that to connect to one of your Sony TV's "HDMI in" connectors (your TV should have between 2 and 4 of those, labeled HDMI1, HDMI2, etc..). If you didn't have a VCR, which you can replace with a Time Warner HD-DVR box or a HD Tivo + a cable card, btw, that would be all you would need to do as far as connections.

More a little later.


I am w/ you on all this - thnx. Coaxil/antenna/RF cable is the round white one w/ the single recessed small thin wire-like connector, yes? This is the connection from cable wire into cable box (nowhere else). I think i've got the remotes figured out. Am pissed about 'guide' format, but suppose I will just learn #s of channels we use. Will check to see if our cable box is HD and examine for HDMI connections. I seem to rmember 4 of the colored round 'plugs' (red, green, yellow, white?), but am not sure about HDMI connector

Originally Posted by Tokyo Slim
http://columbiaisa.googlepages.com/c...grams_hdtv.htm

High pitched whining might be a number of things. Loose connections, electrical interference between the cable box/dvr and the tv, faulty grounding, etc. Start by moving your cable box/dvr. away from the tv. You shouldn't have to move it to another room, just try moving it a few feet away first.

Do you have a surge protector or are all these things just plugged right into your wall?


TS - I was thinking it might be some type of grounding problem, and will check connections. Unfortunately, the way everything is set up prohibts much movement. TV and DVR/box are plugged into wall - best ot use a strip/surge supressor?
 

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Usually a good idea on principal. You can get one that "filters" the power source too if you think it might help, though I'm not sure if there is any solid science behind it. I'd start with a surge protector, and maybe invest in some longer cables as my first option. You shouldn't have to move the box that far, a foot or two away from wherever it currently is should be able to tell you whether it's interferance or not.

If your cables are red white and yellow, even if you have an HD box, you aren't getting an HD signal. If it's an HDMI cable or you have a blue, green, and red cable, as well as a yellow and white, you probably are. Might solve your problem to switch to HD cables if you don't have them.

Also, are you sure it's your TV making the noise and not the dvr box? Maybe you got one with a loud hard drive?
 

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Originally Posted by romafan
I am w/ you on all this - thnx. Coaxil/antenna/RF cable is the round white one w/ the single recessed small thin wire-like connector, yes?
Yes, that's correct. Here are your common connection options from best to worst and what they look like on the back of a TV or a cable box, this assumes you have no AV receiver, etc. HDMI- single rectangular plug that caries video and audio, the only connection that supports 1080p resolution (i.e from a Blu ray or HD-DVD). Component video - video signal only up to 1080i, three round jacks, red, blue and green in color. Usually marked Y, Pb, Pr. Need to connect audio separately using stereo RCA jacks which are round and red and white. S-Video - standard definition video signal only. A single black round jack with a several holes in it. Need to connect audio separately using RCA red and white jacks. Composite video - standard definition video signal only. A single round yellow jack. Need to connect audio separately using RCA red and white jacks. Coaxial antenna/RF cable carrying an analog signal - standard definition only. Degraded audio and video signals. Note, that it's perfectly fine for this cable to carry your digital cable or satellite signals before they get decoded into analog signals by your cable box/satellite box/cable card. This site has a good gallery of what these connectors look like: http://hometheater.about.com/od/home...ection-Photo-/
 

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Thomas, Dmax, SLim - mucho appreciato! We seem to be up & running. And it's true what they say: 100s of channels and there's nothing on
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* no HD connector, but we hahve the 5 coloroed plugs (blue, green, red, yellow, white) and things look ok
 

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Originally Posted by romafan
Thomas, Dmax, SLim - mucho appreciato! We seem to be up & running. And it's true what they say: 100s of channels and there's nothing on
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* no HD connector, but we hahve the 5 coloroed plugs (blue, green, red, yellow, white) and things look ok


Those are HD cables, so you should be good. Is the noise still there?
 

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Originally Posted by Tokyo Slim
Those are HD cables, so you should be good. Is the noise still there?

noise seems to have abated w/o me moving anything, but this is not primary watching spot so I will check more closely. thanx again! am going ot do power strip...
 

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