Skippy25
join:2000-09-13
Hazelwood, MO
| reply to smcallah
Re: Technology requires moving forward, not backwa
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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