I connected an HDMI cable (which was not cheap) to my Sony WEGA HDTV from the HD cable box. For whatever reason, the box is trying to transmit every channel in 1080. The non-HD channels look a little ...

Peep behind your HDTV and you’ll find at least one HDMI cable. It’s the wire that lets your HD cable box or DVD player to connect with your TV screen, and it conforms to existing HDMI 1.3 standards.

My buddy just picked up a HDTV and tried to connect it to his Comcast HD cable box via HDMI but ran into problems. He opted to use coax instead, saying it was the next best choice for picture quality.