HD Television screen sizes.

liam8282

anotherbaldrick wrote: »

Chester City are the best football club in the world. :eek:

The new Accrington Stanley.

tifo

OK_Sauce wrote: »

When you are comparing SD with HD you are not comparing like for like, you are comparing an 'upscaled' version of SD and comparing that to HD.

It doesn't matter, the HD picture does not look as good as it's meant to be under normal viewing (without having to rearrange the furniture or buy new equipment), whatever the reason. These are just excuses.

tifo

liam8282 wrote: »

The new Accrington Stanley.

Well, Chairman Khan helps (and pays the tax bills).

ukcarper

OK_Sauce wrote: »

When you are comparing SD with HD you are not comparing like for like, you are comparing an 'upscaled' version of SD and comparing that to HD. If you put a true SD picture on an HD TV it would either look truly awful or very small. The SD version that you see is either the circuitry in your TV or Digibox interpreting the signal and converting it for you. If your TV does it well then the difference between HD and SD would be minimal, especially if your viewing distance is too far away. If your tv does it badly then the difference is more obvious. Don't forget the HD TV channels also carry Dolby Digital 5.1, a vast improvement over Prologic audio. (If you say they're 'about the same' then I give up trying to convince you!!!)

I'm afraid if the detail is not in the original signal it cannot be found as if by magic.

liam8282

Have a look at these youtube comparisons, admittedly they are promotional vids, but they are not too far off the mark.

Even I would say SD isn't as bad as shown in these vids, but the difference between the HD & SD is accurately represented.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQh7tSugByw&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU1y7W6ctz8&feature=related

ukcarper

liam8282 wrote: »

Have a look at these youtube comparisons, admittedly they are promotional vids, but they are not too far off the mark.

Even I would say SD isn't as bad as shown in these vids, but the difference between the HD & SD is accurately represented.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQh7tSugByw&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eU1y7W6ctz8&feature=related

I'd agree if you are sitting close enough as admiller said inactive should have qaulified his comments.

Inactive

liam8282 wrote: »

Gives your opinion a bit of substance, rather than "I don't like it, therefore it is rubbish".

I didn't make that quoted statement.

I don't need to justify anything to anyone, I am just posting my opinion of what I see with my eyes, do you use some different system to watch TV?

Anyway we are just going around in circles, I believe that HD is not a significant improvement over SD, if you are happy with yours, well bully for you.

You are obviously obsessed with HD.

I am not.

moonrakerz

Inactive wrote: »

So HD is only suitable for people that are happy to rearrange their living rooms, shame nobody tells you that when you buy the kit.

It is fairly useless then IMO.

Not the equipment that is useless................
Shame some people can't do even the slightest bit of investigative work before spending hundreds of pounds on an item that they don't have a clue how to use !

Hope you don't drive.........

almillar

tifo, if you're going to buy a 32"LCD from Tesco and stick it in the corner of the room, you're not really getting the best from HD. It IS better, there ARE 4x as many pixels as SD and they DO NOT have to tell you how far away to sit from the screen. If you had gone to the shop, viewed from your living room distance, and thought it wasn't worth it for you personally, you would've saved money.
Coming in and generalising that HD is not better than SD is factually wrong. Saying it's not worth it for you in your opinion is fine.
And rather than the upscaled argument, it's the signal carrier, the HDMI lead against SCART, which gives a big improvement in SD quality.
I'm really looking forward to the F1 in HD this year, I won't be rearranging my furniture, I won't be sitting on top of the TV, and I WILL notice the difference!

ukcarper

Do any of the manufactures make any 37” or larger LCD TVs that aren’t full HD?