SKY HD (High Definition)

Moneymaker

http://forum.digitalspy.co.uk/board/forumdisplay.php?f=152

(Touché)

andothfc

penrhyn wrote:

There have been several reports about Sky being let down by there HD box suppliers (perhaps Sir Alan has been distracted of late).
I trust your HD TV has a 1920*1080 pixel display, as if it hasn't its not up to spec!
Why not buy one of the newer DVD players with a scaled up resolution, and forget about Sky HD for the moment.

Something like this: http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0007YQO18/026-9588341-8949256

You may as well have just posted "I don't have a clue what I'm talking about" rather than waste your time with that post.

Firstly, perhaps you can tell me what Alan Sugar has to do with SkyHD? The boxes are made exclusively by Thomson, not Amstrad.

Secondly, a 1920x1080 display is not required for HD. 720 is the amount of lines required and 1024x1024 sets will even show native HD broadcasts without interlacing (due to cropping negligible lines from top and bottom).

And thirdly - just to complete the set -whilst an upscaling DVD player will
provide a better picture than a bog standard player, it doesn't come close to producing HD quality as there simply isn't the detail in the source.

penrhyn

http://www.home-entertainment.toshiba.co.uk/consumer/products.nsf/pages/lcdplasma-lcdfreeview-42wlt66?opendocument

http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1208950,00.html

You're fired:rotfl:

Seriously though, I think it would be best to wait for a year or so before taking the HD plunge or not!

andothfc

penrhyn wrote:

You're fired:rotfl:

You got any response to the points I made? Or are you just sticking to glib, ignorant cliches?

jonuk7

alexjohnson wrote:

And by the way to penrhyn: 0% of HD screens in the UK as of right now can display 1080p using an HDMI input. Sure, they are 1080p panels, but cannot display that unless you can somehow get 1080p Freeview. Which you can't, obviously. Apparently the chips are cheaper. of course that will change - and I'm guessing quite soon - but that's the state of today's market. Note also that the Toshiba HD-DVD player cannot output 1080p either. (I'm not sure about the Samsung Blu-Ray player.)

and thats why you need to be clever like me lol i shipped my telly in from the US last week. ohh how the yanks annoy me but there equipment release is so much better than the UK 90% of my stuff is shipped in.