retired me, I honestly don't remember the exact name of that darn thing, nor do I really care at this point. lol
I think what tns found on Best Buy's website is what this guy was pushing. I just thought it looked ridiculous and that it was a rip off and that's all I needed to know at the time. This was meant for older cabling? I don't know. He just kept going on saying he didn't know if the Verizon STB is HD Ready and made a stink out of supermaximizing the quality of the picture. He just wanted his commission but he wasn't getting it off of me. lol
My new TV is the 26" Samsung HD LED TV UN26D4003.
I must admit that I'm having trouble deciphering some of the terminology that you're using because you're more used to this stuff than I am. If you could simplify it and respond to me as if you were speaking to my grandmother, that would help me out even more. 🙂 Thanks. What's a "dongle" adapter. I know there is a reason why I can't work in the field of retail electronics. lol
Sorry if I confused you at all, Q, it's just that propeller-heads like me don't have a real life. All seriousness aside, I think TNS has hit upon the likely item to which the idiot salesperson was alluding. An HDMI switcher is probably the component in question, a device into which you plug several sources (like bluray players) for display on a common screen. They are handy if a TV has limited HDMI inputs but you have many devices that do and you want them all connected to the same TV; you use the switcher to select which one displays on the TV. My suggestion was for a slightly different item - I used the term "dongle" which is an old computer term for an adapter, in this case to convert one kind of signal to another. As I stated, some new TVs don't have the plug in ports for older equipment with component or composite cables (like old VCRs), so an adapter is used to plug the old cables into so the new TV with the newer tech ports can still use the old signal from the old device. On a smaller set, you won't see much difference between the HDMI signal and one supplied by component plus audio. HDMI is just a simpler connection in that it involves only one cable. You should be using one of the two, though, for HD signals.
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