LCD TV Question

[Joshua312]

I'm looking to purchase this TV for in my room to compliment my new toy (Xbox 360) But when I was looking at the specs it doesn't look like there is a place to connect my cable to. I did see mention of ATS (Automated Tuning System) will this automatically detect my cable? lol Sorry for my stupidity and thanks for the help.

Philips Consumer Products - Product Details

From the Best Buy website: "Conventional analog TV reception is provided via a built-in NTSC tuner" and this means...?

[BigJimZ28]

from your link!

Connectivity
Number of AV connections : 2
Other connections : F-Type (75 ohm), PC Audio in, DVI-I
AV 1 : Audio L/R in, YPbPr (2fh)
Front / Side connections : Headphone out
AV 2 : Audio L/R in, CVBS, S-Video

(fyi F-Type (75 ohm)= cable)

[BigJimZ28]

Originally Posted by Joshua312

From the Best Buy website: "Conventional analog TV reception is provided via a built-in NTSC tuner" and this means...?

this means you do not need a seperate tuner
(it works like a regular tv)

[BlackElantraGT]

When they're referring to the built in NTSC tuner, that doesn't have anything to do with your cable. That affects OTA (Over-The-Air) HD reception, which you can get for free if you have an antenna (think old school rabbit ears). Basically they're saying that your TV can get HD reception out of the box without having to buy anthing extra (besides an antenna).

I live in the LA Metropolitan area and even where I am, HD reception via OTA sucks. If a certain channel comes in clearly, another channel won't and vice versa. I'm sure you remember how much rabbit ears sucked before cable boxes came around.

Here is what you're interested in:

Connectivity
Number of AV connections : 2
Other connections : F-Type (75 ohm), PC Audio in, DVI-I
AV 1 : Audio L/R in, YPbPr (2fh)
Front / Side connections : Headphone out
AV 2 : Audio L/R in, CVBS, S-Video

Basically you have 3 ways of video input.
#1 is DVI-I
#2 is Component (Red, Green, Blue for video) + (Yellow+White for audio)
#3 is S-Video (S-Video + Yellow+White)

To really make use of Hi-Def, you want to use at the minimum a Component connection. S-Video would be pointless to use unless it was for an older video game system or a VCR.

I'm no tech expert and I haven't looked into LCD TV's too much lately, but you might want to find one that offers an HDMI input with HDCP. From my understanding, HDMI is basically similiar DVI (digital connection) but with audio on the same connection, but the reason why I recommend you looking into making sure you have HDMI w/ HDCP is because you want to make sure your TV is future proof. HDCP allows them to control digital copy protected content.

[Joshua312]

Jim, thanks for the help. Here is the picture from Best Buy and I just cant seem to see the same connection on this as I currently have on my TV. Any ideas? Maybe it is on the side of the tv?

[paul34]

The NTSC reference simply states that you will be able to receive OTA (like rabbit ears stuff) broadcasts. It doesn't refer to OTA HD broadcasts, as that is a different standard (not NTSC).

The question is, what cables do you want to use to connect the xbox to your TV?

Basically, it looks like you will need component video inputs (this will be three separate plugs for just video, two separate ones for sound... like on the right side of the image you posted) on the TV. Do you have this on the TV?

[Joshua312]

Paul: The Xbox 360 will be coming with Component Cables, I'm just wondering how this actual TV will connect to my cable tv, I'll go take a picture of my current cable....

[BigJimZ28]

Originally Posted by Joshua312

Jim, thanks for the help. Here is the picture from Best Buy and I just cant seem to see the same connection on this as I currently have on my TV. Any ideas? Maybe it is on the side of the tv?

yes it's on the side
look at page 2 of the pdf!

[Joshua312]

Jim, Paul, and BlackElantraGT Thank you all very much for your help! I really appreciate it!