You would not believe how many people have their sets hooked up via coax or even composite, even sets that have svideo and component jacks. Seriously, there's a huge gap between the capabilities of today's sets and the ability of Joe Sixpack to hook it up correctly.
Also, $50 for a "good" HDMI cable is too high. $250 for a Monster brand uranium coated HDMI cable is totally a scam. HDMI is a digital signal, like the optical or coax digital audio output on your DVD player. A google search will turn up 2m HDMI cables starting around $15. These cheap cables transmit the identical signal as the $250 unobtanium-clad ripoffs. Not almost the same, EXACTLY the same, thanks to the power of 1s and 0s. Look at it like this -- you don't get more (or less) typos and misspellings in my post if you have a more expensive computer. Thanks to digital transmission you get it just like I typed it, exactly, on the cheapest computer which is capable of accessing it that is not defective in some way. Same deal.
Ironically, this ATSC tuner may be cheaper than any of the HDMI cables Radio Shack sells.
“While it's not exactly punching it out with the heavyweights in multi-room audio, the Mint Studio does certainly hold its own with many similarly-priced iPod docks out there.”
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You would not believe how many people have their sets hooked up via coax or even composite, even sets that have svideo and component jacks. Seriously, there's a huge gap between the capabilities of today's sets and the ability of Joe Sixpack to hook it up correctly.
Also, $50 for a "good" HDMI cable is too high. $250 for a Monster brand uranium coated HDMI cable is totally a scam. HDMI is a digital signal, like the optical or coax digital audio output on your DVD player. A google search will turn up 2m HDMI cables starting around $15. These cheap cables transmit the identical signal as the $250 unobtanium-clad ripoffs. Not almost the same, EXACTLY the same, thanks to the power of 1s and 0s. Look at it like this -- you don't get more (or less) typos and misspellings in my post if you have a more expensive computer. Thanks to digital transmission you get it just like I typed it, exactly, on the cheapest computer which is capable of accessing it that is not defective in some way. Same deal.
Ironically, this ATSC tuner may be cheaper than any of the HDMI cables Radio Shack sells.