HD televisions are designed to work straight out of the box with no calibration required. A handful of professional and specialist models may need an amount of set up for color calibration or image sizing but these are very unusual.
Some projectors will also require a small amount of set up but the days of spending two hours to set up video projectors are long gone now.
Not at all. To view HD programming, however, you will.
It depends what type of TV you have. If you have a standard TV, all you need is the PS3, and all the connection cables that come with it. Once there connected, all you need is some games to play. But if you have a HD TV, you will need the PS3, all the connection cables that come with it and a HDMI cable. This HDMI cable is what transmits the HD visuals onto the HD TV.
You cannot. An HDTV will allow for the HD resolution to be displayed. Without the display it is not in HD.
no
Using HD TVSome satellite and cable networks do broadcast 720p HD, at this stage there are no full 1080 HD broadcasts. You need to live in an area where this service is provded and you'll need to pay a subscription fee and you will need a digital receiver with an HDMI output to your TV. Also, you can watch analog or non-HD digital programing on a HDTV. To enjoy the better resolution that HD offers, you need to get HD signals from somewere: Free HD broadcasts with an antenna, HD cable, HD satellite, HD/BluRay DVDs...
no it just means its capable of HD old TVs cant do that
yes
No. they have to transmit in HD as well. You will also need to make sure that your TV is HD capeable, cable box or satellite has HD service, as well as HDMI cables to connect everything to watch in HD.
No, you don not need one. You'll be able to record, but not playback in HD.
Yes. You also need HDMI cables to connect the two.
They no longer make HD 'ready' TV's. HD ready meant that there was no tuner in the TV. With the digital changeover they all have the HD tuner built in. If you have cable or satellite you will still need HD service to get an HD picture.
Yes, all flat panel (LCD and plasma) televisions are high definition. However, not all HD televisions are flat - there are a few CRT televisions that are HD.