HD - Really any good???

frestuffwooo

The only time i notice how bad SD is is in football matches on sky in quick play how all around the players is Pixelated and also somwtiomes in slowmo replays, but it really doesnt bother me.

I mean if someone handed me a HD TV and Free SkyHD id take it, but for the price i really dont think its worht it.

Anyway in 2 years time that will be obsolete and thell have superhd or some new fangled stuff.

So yeah i'm not bothered about hd till its the same pice as SD

EDIT:Okj now i've looked at that comparison and HOW BAD does sd look compared to hd. I never thought it would be so clearer. That has persuded me towards hd but its still tooo pricey.

jonnydoe

jimbobjones wrote:

For instance, the quality of picture on the trailer for PLanet Earth on BBC HD is easily the equal if not better than eye quality.

What you "see" is what you get

heybigspender2006

If you're going to buy an Xbox 360 or Playstation 3 this year I'd suggest investing in an HD set - haven't seen PS3 in person yet but the 360 looks amazing in HD. If not then I'd probably wait until the Sky HD/Telewest HD was more widespread and cheaper. Plus HD-DVD/BluRay aren't available for mainstream consumers properly yet so the benefits now are negligble.

T4i

jonnydoe wrote:

Not seen an hd demo and it's laughable to see the demo on sky's website and interesting to read about the "upscaling"

Cheers

JD

LOL! And some people STILL get suckered in!! I have no doubt we will all have HDtv in the future.....BIG difference though. People who buy now get a very limited HD service for big bucks.

All the rest of us will be paying proper money for a service that WILL be good enough to warrant getting.

Imagine introducing something as big as HDtv and using upscaled demos to promote it!!!!! :rotfl:

joemardo1

Hi folks,

An interesting discussion. Well my old 28 inch 4:3 went a few days ago so had to buy a new telly. 2 things I have noticed, not many tv repairmen nowadays only 2 in my area and one wanted £25 even to look at the old tv..time etc.

So anyway went to a few tv shops the usual lot. Some great displays of all sizes of plasma and lcd, (but not many crt tv's) Truly lovely tellies with lovely prices. Buy a plasma tv ..and you probably will be out extra cost on a decent stand and making sure your picture is good quality. And OMG the price of an extended warranty I think over £300 for an extra 2 years after manufacturers guarantee has run out!

High defination (hd) looks great when you see it in the shops. But at a big price too, as a currys salesman explained as well as buying a HD ready tv, you have to buy a setup box at cost of £300 from sky and pay £10 a month subscription. Way beyond my means and I feel not worth it, until cost comes down as they probably will eventually. Remember the days not so long ago when a 32 inch widescreen was price of todays plasma.

Anyways I settled on a philips 32 inch crt flat screen for £399 +£23 delivery, and took out an extended warrant of 5 years against breakdown and accidents total cost £510. On the subject of extended waranties I dont usually buy them in a place like Currys but I was offered a good deal. It seems they can cut up to £30 of the asking price of a warranty if they think you are going to get it from some other place like Domestic and general insurace online.

Well the Tv is being delivered on Friday so at the moment I'm happy with the deal

Joe

ABH_3

Quincy wrote:

Sony + DRM :eek: keep well away

AIUI, it's not Sony to blame for the DRM, it's included in all tv's with a HDMI socket. There seems to be a big push from not only the various movie studios to introduce this, but the likes of SKY Broadcasting, who all seem to think that this is the way to protect their broadcast worthy content.

Furthermore, lcd and plasma's are known to make sd content look rubbish, but hd content should look like at the least dvd quality or better. Ironicly, SKY's 'new' HD standard it's been argued in various groups\forums could be already achieved, if they would just stop messing with the compression and bitrates on what they already output.

As for me, I'm still looking into this. I purchased an lcd tv not so long ago and it was pretty bad when viewing analogue material, everything looked somewhat faded. However on dvd's it came alive. I am making do without a tv presently, in a bid to work out what's going to be the best buy. It's presently between the new Sony 32 and the Phillips 32 inch models. But by the time i make my mind up, something better shall probably have come out

Oh yes and for those that are concerned that there may not be anything worth watching on HD. I think this post here: http://www.avforums.com/forums/showpost.php?p=3046862&postcount=779 sums that up quite nicely.