TV has increased price

davethorp

Glad to help. Mines a pint!!

soul619

david39 wrote: »

Scotslad

No it isn't "full" HD - by which I think you mean is it of the highest definition?

Highest definition is 1080P - you would really notice the difference on a bluray disc or an HD broadcast if you put it alongside a similar sized 1080P set.
Contrast ratio not very inspiring either.

i have a hd ready and a hd tv an when i play bluray through my ps3 u cant tell the difference on either as the hd ready upscales the picture to 1080i as do most

Pokerlad

soul619 wrote: »

i have a hd ready and a hd tv an when i play bluray through my ps3 u cant tell the difference on either as the hd ready upscales the picture to 1080i as do most

How can it? An HD ready TV dosnt have 1080 lines in the panel to be able to upscale it to that. It only has 768 lines.

djohn2002uk

Pokerlad wrote: »

How can it? An HD ready TV dosnt have 1080 lines in the panel to be able to upscale it to that. It only has 768 lines.

That is totally incorrect.
I have a 2 year old 40" Sony that was "HD ready" and it can reproduce an "upscaled" picture from my Sony DVD recorder at 1080i.
Are you saying that it does that even though "It only has 768 lines" ?

Pokerlad

I take it you mean your DVD player upscales to 1080i? I think your misunderstanding what your TV does with that output. Your DVD Player may upscale your output to 1080 but your TV needs to downscale it again to 768 overwise you wouldnt see all the picture! If it was possible why would we all look for 1080P TV's we would just get HD Ready.

A TV with 768 lines can not show 1080 lines it's impossible.

asbokid

don't know about these Clarity TVs - I wouldn't buy from Tesco on principle - but noticed in Richer Sounds they had some very good deals on large TVs..

http://www.richersounds.com




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djohn2002uk

Pokerlad wrote: »

I take it you mean your DVD player upscales to 1080i? I think your misunderstanding what your TV does with that output. Your DVD Player may upscale your output to 1080 but your TV needs to downscale it again to 768 overwise you wouldnt see all the picture! If it was possible why would we all look for 1080P TV's we would just get HD Ready.

A TV with 768 lines can not show 1080 lines it's impossible.

You obviously know nothing about what you are trying to explain.
The DVD upscales anything less than 1080 up to 1080i. The TV is 1080i so it does not have to downscale it, it just produces a picture at 1080i.
You are getting confused between 1080i and 1080p. The only difference between those are the 1080i is interlaced scanning the same as TVs have been since black and white TV, and the 1080p is progressively scanned the same as the monitor you are reading this on so there is no flicker when you sit very close. Sitting the correct distance away you don't notice any difference ( although some on here will tell you they notice it even though in the past they've always watched interlaced TV and not noticed anything wrong).

Please, if you don't understand things let others explain because you could cause someone to spend hundreds of pounds unnecessarily.

I'd better add for your information that ALL HD ready TVs are 1080i and probably 780p (as mine is) and will show any 1080 input at 1080i whether it is a p or an i input. I suggest you do a little reading up on HD and HD ready. And that is not being facetious.

Pokerlad

lol. You tell me not to talk about things that I don't know about then tell me a HD Ready TV (780p) can display a 1080I picture! Yes it can display it but not without downscalling it to 780. What would be the point of 1080 TV's overwise. Ignore I and P for the moment it has nothing to do with it.

djohn2002uk

You are a total waste of time so I won't waste any more of my time on you.

For anyone else, a 1080i TV displays any input via an HDMI lead will display at 1080 lines on an HD ready 1080i TV or at 1080p on a full HD TV.

Pokerlad

Being dismissive dosnt make you right.

There is no such thing as a 1080i HD Ready TV. 'HD Ready' means it is a TV that can accept at least 720p. It dosnt mean you can't play 1080p (Blu-Ray) or 1080i (Sky HD) on them, it means they will downscale the picture to fit the screen. Where as a 'Full HD' screen will display all 1080 lines natively without up or downscale.

Right back to basics. The number is used to discribe how many pixels the TV has. If the broadcast sends more information to the TV then it can show it needs to downscale. For example Blue Ray sends information for 1920 x 1080 pixels (p or i dosnt matter). A 'HD Ready' TV has 1280 x 720 pixels so it can't map the picture 1 pixel to 1. So it has do 'downscale' it so that none of the picture is lost. If it didnt it would be like watching zoomed in on the picture. Simple really.

So i'm not saying it cant process the signal, just that its not how the source intended it to be seen. On a screen less then 42" its genrally considered you wont see any loss of detail.