I own Panasonic Cinemavision projection
The digital tuner depends on where you want your programming to come from. Most common sources are a cable company, or a satelite company. In these cases they will provide the box for you to get HD. One common misconception about digital is that it is HD, but that is not necessarily true. All HD is digital, but not all digital is HD. Just like a DVD is digital, it will provide clear picture and sound, but you need to make sure you specify you want an HD box and not just a digital box. Typical providers are DirectTV, Dish Network (both satelite) or Cox Cable, Comcast, etc (cable). Your area may have different companies, usually cable is best in the city, satelite if you're out in the country.
Another source for HD programming is antenna or internet. These are less common sources, but are gaining in popularity. The broadcast networks have switched to digital in the last couple years, and in a lot of cases to HD. With just an antenna "rabbit ears" you can get an HD signal of your local stations and its an excellent picture. Both antenna and internet are where I get my programming from, it saves me tons of money, but is a bit more complicated:
Antenna - usually you will need a good signal to get digital antenna and you will need a box (your panansonic doesn't have an HDTV (atsc) tuner) and you will need an antenna preferably on the roof or in the attic. This will give you solid signal and excellent picture, but the box costs about $100 or more, and the antenna can run you $50 or more, especially w installation. You can get a digital antenna box (non-hd) for about $30 minimum and get some local stations off your old rabbit ears, but it all depends on reception (how close you are to towers, where your antenna is inside the house).
Internet - a growing trend in watching tv... you can get watch tv shows and movies through Netflix or other websites like www.hulu.com on the internet. you can also watch many other stations www.abc.com, www.nbc.com, etc
to use internet as a programming source, you need a computer or Netflix capable device hooked up. We use a Playstation 3 to stream Netflix to my HDTV, and it costs us $9 a month for Netflix, and then our high speed internet bill. You can also stream non-hd on a wii, hd on an xbox, or you can use a Roku player or capable Blu-ray player to stream (i believe they can all do HD). To achieve HD streaming, you need atleast about 5 megabit internet. Go to www.speedtest.net to find out how fast your internet is. This can be complicated, but you can save a lot of $$..
As you can see, I could probably write a book on the topic.. but hopefully this helps a bit. Let me know what specific questions you have, if any, and I can help steer you in the right direction.
Here is a link for a HDTV antenna tuner for less than $100
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6/23/2010 10:40:08 PM •
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on Jun 23, 2010