Best Buy TV source for Magnolia HDTV Room

Krycek1

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Sorry, I'm not sure where this thread should go but I had a question. Does anyone know if Best Buy uses Cable or Satellite to display content on their HDTV demo room (Magnolia Room)? Thanks
 
I know the regular displays (not in the magnolia room) is a feed from Direct TV. I'm not 100% sure about the magnolia rooms.
 
Look under the TVs,

at my best buy in the Magnolia area:

2 main DLPs are Blu-Ray
Other 2 are Directv HD
on the wall the picture is the same as the DLPs with the Directv HD boxes so I assume they are Directv HD
 
i think it really depends on the store, on the main floor most of the tv's are run coax from a recorded 1080i source thats played back off a hard drive.
The magnolia rooms are setup a little better, but most stores ive been in are on a similar feed, though certain demo's are setup on hd directv or on blueray.... though honestly the ones on directv hd dont look too great to me, but the one i saw was hooked up component, not hdmi or anything fancy.
 
A few stores here usually show a Blu Ray player to some crappy DLP TV at 1080p. It doesn't seem like they really want to sell the TVs however as the rest of the pictures are not much better than digital SD.
 
Thats for the great responses.

Yeah, I know what you guys are talking about. Sometimes they just have movies and stuff to show off the picture quality. However, the other day they turned to TNT HD and all the displays (like 8 or 9) were tuned to the channel and Titanic was on and looked it AMAZING. I'm almost ready to switch to DirectTV (if thats in fact what they use) because the picture qulity was so good and I have a highend 46' 1080p display so I really want to get the most out of.
 
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