I am looking for HD TV Digital Cable Ready 20" and 32" TVs Does anyone know of any that are on the market at t
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I am looking for HD TV Digital Cable Ready 20" and 32" TVs Does anyone know of any that are on the market at this time 2007? This was an answer given . It looks like the cable industry is moving away from Cable-Card in favor of Switched Digital Video - a system that serves up programming upon request. No SDV TVs on the market yet, unfortunately. Switched Digital Video What does Switched Digital Video - (a system that serves up programming upon request) means ? Please member hdtvjunk also answer this question, he was the one who said this. Thank you
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Hell, there's ALL SORTS of TVs out there that will fill your needs.... Just get ONLINE and search Best Buy and Circuit City for the size you want.... As for Digital Cable Ready, MOST TV sets now require a CABLE BOX for the best setup. And yes, Cable Card® based TV sets are rare anymore...the Cards just seemed to work only with the Cable Boxes and not very well with them inserted into a TV set....it was just unreliable in MANY brands that used them.
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The term "Digital Cable Ready" usually means that a DTV has a cable card slot. It does not guaranty that you can hook the DTV directly into any cable system. Cable cards have a reputation for being flaky anyway. To make sure that the TVs you buy can receive HDTV signals without a cable box, you will need to find out from your cable company what kind of system they have/are planning to install. If the channels you want are SDV, then you currently can't...period. If they send out some of their programing using a system called "open QAM" or "non-encrypted QAM", then you could receive those channels with any DTV with a QAM tuner. Most (but not all) DTVs have QAM tuners; check the TV's specs. Switched Digital Video (SDV) is a way that cable companies play musical chairs with there cable channels. Basically they cluster customers into groups. The groups are small enough that the cable company is (reasonably) sure that not all of their channels will be watched at the same time within any group. Each cable box can request a program and the cable company only sends programs that have been requested to that group of customers. Current cable card slots are not compatible with Switched Digital Video. Nor are they likely to be anytime soon.
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