Alright just picked up a 42in LCD tv. Got it all hooked up to the digital cable box with a HDMI cable, but the picture seems to slightly snowy. Is there something i can do do get rid of this snowyness, or is just the result of a bigger picture? Its really annoying, bought LCD tv for clarity and now its not any better then my old tube tv

 

Are you sure the cables are in all the way? I'd make sure everything was connected properly. Maybe reseat all your plugs.

 

yea cables are all on there good

 

you know, you might wanna try to hook it up via component cables to see if that fixes it. when i hooked up my charter cable box to my 40" sony lcd via hdmi, the picture was a little snowy on some channels... i connected it via component instead and the picture was great.

 

are you on the HD channels? the bigger the tv, the shittier normal cable looks depending on the channel h:

 

Alright it seems its just the lower basic cable channels that look like ass, turned it to HBO and it looks good and the HD channels look fine too

 

well, the regular channels are only sent at 480i, so they'll look like ass regardless. makes sure that on your cablebox, that you select that your tv only does 1080i, so that it will upconvert the 480i signal to that.

 

what cable box do you have? can you do that with a comcast box?

 

standard analog TV content will look like ass on HDTVs.
standard digital may look a little better.

Main reason why we havent bought an HDTV yet

what box do you have?

 

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