is it true that I can take a yellow/red/white cable, plug them into the component output on the dish receiver and then plug them into the component input on my TV and it will be HD?
Yes BUT only the yellow has video quality sheilding.
well this would only be a temporary setup until my new HDMI cable arrives from monoprice
i did an quick test of the cabling in question. My tv has multiple component ins so this was easy to setup. I used actual component cables on one of the inputs and plain 'red,white.yellow' cables on another one. I was not very suprised to find no noticable difference in PQ. This was true at all resolution settings I have. We are only talking about 3' here. I would have been suprised to if COULD see a difference. I bet I could use phone wire, at 3', and you couldn't tell a difference.
Monster will disagree with you![]()