hey guys, especially our resident cinema guru Brian, I have a question.
I assume I'm the one you're referencing here.
When I sold Plasmas a couple years ago I'd advise people to get a good quality VCR, (preferrably a S-VHS deck) and to use the tuner in the VCR. Toshiba, Mitsubishi, Sony, & Panasonic make pretty good VCR's. I'd had better luck with the Mits & Tosh decks.
But you might want to look at the D-VHS D Theater decks now. Then you can watch HD movies
and have a tuner in one box.
I'm not sure of what you can do with the OTA HD deocders as most of my HD experience has been with sattelite HD. So I don't know if the OTA boxes are also NTSC tuners.
As the stand alone tuners weren't really needed before plasma monitors I honestly don't have much experience with them.
I'd personally go with a D Theater deck & use the tuner in that. Everything I've read about the D Theater tapes says they're awesome. And the HD footage I've seen played back off D-VHS was simply beautiful.
And to answer the RGB/VGA cable question. AudioQuest makes them. I've looked at a couple before & they were quite well built.