A what who?

[hellkat]

What is an HDMI cable, and why do I need one?

I just want a 32" telly to hang on the wall, reasonably cheap, with HD readyness, whatever the fuck that is.

I hardly ever watch telly.
But I want one there anyway, in case I decide I do.

Why do I have to buy a cable to go with it?

clicky of the sort of telly I might get for the sort of price (or less) I might want to pay
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[Casper]

You dont unless you want to watch Hi Deff DVDs, If you get sky+ you will get a cable free with the box.

[.....]

If you still can't resist the urge to buy one, just buy the cheapest, don't be fooled into buying a blingin' gold thing.

[Misc]

[Ingah]

Asda sell HDMI cables for like £3. I think i saw one in their bargain bin for 75p the other day.
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[hellkat]

Ah, I see.

Well, I wasn't planning to watch Hi Def videos any time real soon, and I wasn't planning on coughing out (what?) £45 a month to have Sky Plus and not watch that *either*

Pointless shelling out for something I don't use, if I was going to watch rugby on Sky, I'd go the pub.

I'm not even paying for a TV licence at present, cos I don't have a working telly at all.

I spend more time on the net and watching bbc iPlayer anyway. But its nice to schnuggle up with the fella when he's around and be easily amused, instead of having to be the entertainment myself, all the time.

So I am only ever likely to want to watch the five terrestrials and/or plug in my freeview box and attach an indoor aerial (landlords have still not fixed me outdoor aerial, wankers).

So I can't see why I would want some fancy goldplated doo-dah anyhow.
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[Frost]

Depends on what your putting on the TV. If your just going to use it to watch freeview or stuff on then you don't need one. If your going to be watching bluray or HD stuff then you need one.

[Casper]

If your laptop has a HDMI out socket then you can get an extra long one and hook it up to the tv for your iplayer. Oh and sky will do you a deal for £19 with the HD box but not worth the bother as like you i dont tv much but the wife needs her soap fix

[yen_powell]

[The View Askew]

Damn you old people are backward.

You only need one if you have a hd source, like sky hd, a games console or blu ray player for example.

What you are using it for just wants to use the cables your old Telly uses.

Get a flat LCD non hd Telly for peanuts and it will do for you everything an hd one would, as you are not giving it hd signal, it doesn't need to be hd ready.
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[Casper]

[Inkognito]

I think i read something the other day about tv licence.
If you use bbc iplayer to watch or record programs live you need the tv licence

So make sure you only watch programs that's already aired lol

[hellkat]

[hellkat]

[bikertomm]

I used to play on my xbox on my full hd 1080 ready with scart connection haha.

Once I got a HDMI for like £2.50 the change was incredible, even the picture from freeview looks good
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