New member | Digital TV info

[Apnarayanan]

Hi guys,
I hope to be enlightened from this forum to some of the queries that I have - Digital TV and Analog TV.
Am in the process of changing my old CRT colour TV to an LED TV...am looking at a 40" or 42" TV and have narrowed down on the below two models:

Panasonic TH-42E30D

Sony KDL-40EX650

My selection criteria were:
LED type, HD, multiple ports of HMDI / USB, wifi connectivity, connect audio to home theatre system.

Am not sure, if the Sony model can connect to a home theatre system.

Need feedback, if the shortlisted models will be the correct choice. Are these models truly digital? Are they good value for money?
Also, while going through the specifications-sheet of some of the manufacturers, it displays as Fully HDD, but shows the TV System as Analog type - how can this disconnect be?

Tx

AP Narayanan

 

[baijuxavior]

The TV system is relevant only if you are watching cable TV without a settop box. The TV has an analog tuner to tune the cable tv channels. Some TVs from Philips has something called DDB which can be used to access DTH directly without STB. I think only Videocon D2H is supported.

Just get an HD STB and connect the HDMI out of STB to TV and no need to worry about Digital or Analog.

If your TV has optical out, you can connect it to HT. You can always connect the DTH box, DVD etc. directly to the HT so optical out in TV is not important.

 

[Apnarayanan]

tx friend.

My Post was, more to understand if I am get short-changed (when the specs say that the TV System is Analog, but it claims fully HDD).

I understand that the benefit of the HD is only when the cable or DTH channel is also in HD. I have seen this difference on the LED - an HD channel can be viewed in the advance resolution, at close distance, whereas a non-HD input needs a 10 feet viewing distance. This difference is to lay-persons like me.

I couldnt quite follow your STB thingie???

Read from other posts of Grey Market - any idea on this?

 

[baijuxavior]

STB means Set Top Box as you may have seen with Dish TV or Tatasky. When using STB, the cable TV support is not necessary.