Chances are there is an HD signal on your cable, that naturally your SD TV doesn't recognize. For example, I get all of the local network channels in HD on my TV and it doesn't have any kind of a digital cable box hooked up to it. They come in as channels with the suffix of -1 on them.
Ah yeah, that may be. Even so I'm not sure it would be worth an HD TV.
I'm probably going to go the computer route. Do you have any particularly good reasons why I shouldn't buy my computer from Dell? I'm not really interested in building computers so I don't have much of a desire to do anything complicated. I've heard people say not to buy from Dell, but I've never had any problems with their computers.
I have had a total of one experience with Dell, and I was very impressed. It (my mom's new laptop she got 3 months ago, http://wiki.billdorr.com/korbiwiki/Bludor_%28computer%29) was not full of trial crapware, what few useless bits of software it had uninstalled without a fight, it upgraded to Vista SP1 without a whimper, doesn't give her any trouble. If I were to base my opinion of both Vista and Dell on that single laptop, I'd be very impressed with both. Unfortunately, I'd already seen what Vista can be like on my dad's HP laptop that he got for work over a year ago. That thing is such a pain sometimes.
I've used two Dells as my primary computers over the past 10 years and they've worked fine.
Let me ask you another question while I've got you here.
I want to keep the price down; my feeling is that I should get the best processor they offer, and maybe go a little cheaper on some of the things I can upgrade later easily. I'm not a big computer gamer; I said before that there are some older games (HoMM V maybe and some PSX emulation, perhaps) that I wouldn't mind playing, but that I'm not going to be buying really new games. Is 1 GB RAM and a ATI Radeon HD 2400 PRO 256MB video card good enough for that purpose?
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I'm probably going to go the computer route. Do you have any particularly good reasons why I shouldn't buy my computer from Dell? I'm not really interested in building computers so I don't have much of a desire to do anything complicated. I've heard people say not to buy from Dell, but I've never had any problems with their computers.
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Let me ask you another question while I've got you here.
I want to keep the price down; my feeling is that I should get the best processor they offer, and maybe go a little cheaper on some of the things I can upgrade later easily. I'm not a big computer gamer; I said before that there are some older games (HoMM V maybe and some PSX emulation, perhaps) that I wouldn't mind playing, but that I'm not going to be buying really new games. Is 1 GB RAM and a ATI Radeon HD 2400 PRO 256MB video card good enough for that purpose?
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