“Can I just hook this up to my cable box myself or is the setup something I really need a professional for.?”
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You can do it yourself. If your TV is hook up to your cable box or laptop or any device or anything at all VIA HDMI cable, all you have to do it connect that to the tv. The tv has a HDMI box that is connected to the back of the TV. You connect the HDMI box with its HDMI plug to the back of the TV and you can plug up to I think % things in it with HDMI cables. So hooking up the cable box would be no different than plugging your laptop into the TV.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.It's pretty intuitive if you already have the cable box installed. It's just replacing the new TV with the old one. Cables are the same.
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Connecting a cable box to any TV is really a piece of cake. There's no need to have a cable technician visit the house, possibly at a service charge, to make the changeover for you. You attach the cable that comes from the wall to the back of the cable box. Then run a HDMI cable from the back of the cable box into one of the HDMI inputs on the back of the new TV set. A HDMI cable is a much better way of sending the signal from the cable box to the TV, rather than running a short length of cable between the box and the TV's screw-on RF (antenna) input. There will be an improvement in the quality of the picture delivered by HDMI, as it is a digital signal, and not an analog signal. Most recent digital cable boxes have at least one HDMI output jack on the back panel. If your cable box is older, and doesn't have a HDMI output, contact your cable TV provider to arrange to get the newest generation box it offers. They will usually swap it out, free of charge, as part of your cable service agreement. If you live in an area where your cable provider has local stores, such as does Comcast, and other major cable TV providers, you can unhook the old cable box, take it to the service store, to return it, assuming it is rented on a monthly service lease, and pick up a new box, all within an hour, or so. Usually one HDMI cable should be included with the new box, so you can have the box connected to the TV and up and running in 15 to 20 minutes. You may have to contact the cable TV service center, by phone, once it is connected, to activate the new box into the system, but that's really all there should be to it.
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