Problem_was told by salesperson that the new TV's we bought were HD ready. I know that we told her we were on cable. The installer comes to house & says that they are NOT. HD receiver is not built in & not a connection to plug in the HD 'card' thing. He said they will NOT work after all station & cable company's completely convert over to digital/HD without the 'box' from the cable company. Someone else told us that they WOULD work, just not HD quality. Would like to know if they WILL continue bring in the cable stations or if we will have to throw them out with the trash if we don't get the cable box or go to dish. This situation is completey bogous!!! Thanks You.
HD ready TVs do not include any receivers. They must be driven from a separate Set Top Box receiver, or cable box or Sat. box or DVD Etc. The salesman should have made sure you understood what HD ready means. For many people who use cable or Sat, HD ready is fine. The change over to digital has nothing to do with the issue. In fact, cable companies must continue to provide analog versions of the locally available Over The Air TV until at least 2012. If you are satisfied with only receiving the standard OTA TV, like 2, 3, 4 ETC., then you have two choices. You can buy an ATSC receiver box to convert OTA from an antenna to signals your TV can use-this will be in HD, but you have to be in the reception area of the transmitters; or you can buy an NTSC receiver which will receive the cable analog TV and convert it for your TV-this will be in standard definition. If you want more than just the standard OTA content, then you’ll need a digital cable box (standard def) or a cable HD box (HD); or the equivalent from Satellite.
If your TVs have an RF input connector, like on the cable , then the answer above is incomplete. If you do have the connector, then your TV does have some kind of receiver in it. If this is the case, e-mail me, and I’ll try to help you further.