dbozzo
join:2003-10-29
Roslindale, MA
|  Technology requires moving forward, not backward
Ok, enough debates for a moment. Lets take a look at this from a possible solutions point of view. Here's what I came up with a while ago.
1. THE MEDIA would be the most crucial pathway to increasing consumer awareness of DTV and HDTV.
2. Better DTV training for industry sales. (Some salespeople out there can't even find the component video jacks)
3. No more up-converted retailer demos. YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE! (That's why most people are not impressed with the picture)
4. Retailers should show budget priced equipment in their ads. (Currently a foreign concept)
5. Sub $50 Cable/OTA down-converters should be scheduled to
roll out ASAP. (If you have to start somewhere, might as well be the bottom of the ladder)
There you have it. By the way the acronym for NTSC is NOT National Television Standards Committee, It's NEVER TWICE SAME COLOR! If you have any doubts, go watch European analog tv. (lol) |
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Skippy25
join:2000-09-13
Hazelwood, MO
| I own an electronics company that I do part time so I dont have a demo shop to show people. I generally send them to Best Buy to find what they want and one thing I ALWAYS tell them to do is INSIST that they remove it from their demo and show them the model without their spiced up picture. This has reduced my "Hey! Why doesn't it look as good as it did at Best Buy?" complaints after I hook them up. |
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smcallah
join:2004-08-05
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| Re: Technology requires moving forward, not backwa
Best Buy's "spiced up" picture? What are you talking about?
All the Best Buys in this area, 4 of them, have HORRIBLE HDTV pictures on all of their sets, running from the Best Buy demo.
Unless they have Discovery HD playing, which looks awesome on any HDTV set, all of their HDTV sets look like crap.
I think Best Buy turns people off of HDTV with their horrible Demo channel.
Best Buy certainly isn't "spicing up" HDTV to look better than it does. Just not possible. |
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Skippy25
join:2000-09-13
Hazelwood, MO
| I never said anything about spiced up HDTV. Unless the TV supports 1080p and they are upcoverting it to that there is now way to spice up HD. I just simply said spiced up. Your Best Buy may not show good HD, but the one around here shows a great picture all the time. Maybe it is Discovery or HDNet which is one of the few that does true 1080i HD. Most other channels are either 720p or upconverted to either 720p or 1080i. Yes there is a difference in quality for those questioning that.
Regardless the picture they show is not the typical picture a user will see when watching Cable, Satellite, or OTA and is therefore spiced up and misleading the customer. They should have it noted clearly in the store that the picture they are showing is not typical of customers experience. Kind of like the one in catalogs. |
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philb8
join:2001-04-05
Portola Valley, CA
| Most consumers get 19 mbits at best .. 1080p and 720p look about the same at that bit rate. 1080i still has interlace artifacts.
A decent 1080p pro monitor is $25K for a 22 inch .. and we are talking gigabit plus data rates.
I'll take my DLP at home over the pro monitors at work .. bigger, brighter and 1/10 the cost.
The HD Tivos are here and already well hacked .. 4 tuners on the direct TV models and they will record two HD channels at once. They are linux based so 3rd party web control interfaces etc.
Off air HD looks great .. check out CSI or live sports!
HBO is good too .. Movies, Sopranos, Six feet under are all hi def.
NTSC is getting to be like dial up! |
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Skippy25
join:2000-09-13
Hazelwood, MO | Samsung is introducing the LT-P468W 46" LCD TV for a cool 8 grand. This one does 1080p.
HBO's HD blows goats. They upcovert 90% of their content and it comes nowhere close to HDNet or Discovery HD. IMO |
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