New TV and my cable box

[amaunator]

I have a Samsung LN52a650 and a Comcast Motorala HD box. The cable box has coaxial or dvi connections. The TV has HDMI and ANT IN (coaxial). I bought a HDMI cable, but then found the cable box did not have a HDMI port. Should I continue to use Coaxial or get a DVI to HDMI adapter?

 

[Slug]

get the DVI converter and run a separate audio cable.

 

[spidey07]

Post the make and model of the cable box. Any modern box should have many output variations including component, DVI, HDMI, etc. to handle high definition content.

 

[amaunator]

Cable box is a DCT6200 Motorola.

It has DVI out, component video out, s-video out, a/v out, rf out.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: amaunator
Cable box is a DCT6200 Motorola.

It has DVI out, component video out, s-video out, a/v out, rf out.

Ok - so your choices for HD are

1) component out to TV (3 cables for video, if you have 3 video cables laying around try these). There is nothing special about component video, it's just video separated into 3 signals so any 75 ohm video cable is OK here.
2) DVI out to TV via adapter, samsungs are good about this, see your manual

That has the video covered, audio is another matter. Running a single screw-in coaxial cable from your box to the TV will not get you HD goody. There may also be settings on your TV that need to be changed so this is where the manual comes in real handy depending on how you connect it.