I'm trying to help out my father-in-law who recently bought a 42" LCD. He has DirecTV with non-HD programming and thus has a D11 box. The picture doesn't look that great. The cables going from the box to the tv are RCA's (box doesn't have HDMI). I've got some questions about what we can do to improve the picture...
1) Getting an HD box to get better picture doesn't require HD programming, does it? I was checking out the DirecTV website and only a few channels are available in HD anyway. An HD box has HDMI connections so that should help out the picture quality.
2) Why is DirecTV quoting him one time $99 for the box PLUS $10/mo and it's not his at the end. What's up w/ the $99? If he were to get the box at Best Buy, would that be doable just changing out the programming card to the new box?
3) Does he have to get a DirecTV HD box? Is there a 3rd party box he can just insert the programming card to get the box to work?
Thanks
1) Getting an HD box to get better picture doesn't require HD programming, does it? I was checking out the DirecTV website and only a few channels are available in HD anyway. An HD box has HDMI connections so that should help out the picture quality.
2) Why is DirecTV quoting him one time $99 for the box PLUS $10/mo and it's not his at the end. What's up w/ the $99? If he were to get the box at Best Buy, would that be doable just changing out the programming card to the new box?
3) Does he have to get a DirecTV HD box? Is there a 3rd party box he can just insert the programming card to get the box to work?
Thanks