HD Television screen sizes.

anotherbaldrick

But if you do not want to sit with eyeballs only 5 ft (1.5m) from the screen you need not bother.

Kurtis_Blue

Please god not this again....

Inactive

liam8282 wrote: »

For example if you don't have a HD device such as Sky, Virgin, PS3, etc. You won't be able to generate anything in HD so won't notice the difference.

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I have a Humax HD Freesat Satellite Receiver, HD is over-rated.

standinman2009

i also have a humax hd freesat and dont agree the picture is great .Someone should have gone to spec savers lol

almillar

I'm pretty sure that Inactive has confirmed that his kit is set up correctly before, but I defy anyone to watch Blue Planet or something on BBC HD, waterfall or tree scenes, and not agree that HD is better. Whether it's worth the extra cost is up for debate, and down to the individual I suppose. And you don't need to sit on top of the TV to see the improvement either. (Just buy a bigger TV ;-) )

tifo

i have sky HD on a top range TV and HD is definately overrated. I can see a difference when switching over, but not something that's worth the extra £10 per month, which i'll be cancelling as soon as the first 12 months are over. The standard channels will do for me.

images become smaller on HD as the TV has to fit the extra pixels in and this is not always good.

Kurtis_Blue

tifo wrote: »

images become smaller on HD as the TV has to fit the extra pixels in and this is not always good.

No they don't, your TV is set up incorrectly or you are watching a program filmed in SD on a HD stream.

tifo

Kurtis_Blue wrote: »

No they don't, your TV is set up incorrectly or you are watching a program filmed in SD on a HD stream.

Nope, i'm watching Sky HD channels such as NewsHD, SportsHD and other HD programs, which are marked orange on the planner.

My TV changes automatically from 720 to 1080 depending on the channel.

The images appear smaller because there's more info to show on the TV. This is how any HD channel works. Otherwise how can it show the extra info on the same sized screen. I didn't say there are black bars around the TV, i said the images are smaller. They fill the whole screen.

tuggy12

I would agree that you have to sit about 5-6 ft from a 37" HD TV to see any real diffrence.

Kurtis_Blue

tifo wrote: »

The images appear smaller because there's more info to show on the TV. This is how any HD channel works. Otherwise how can it show the extra info on the same sized screen. I didn't say there are black bars around the TV, i said the images are smaller. They fill the whole screen.

:huh:

The "smaller" SD pictures are "up-scaled" to fit the HD tv by guessing the missing info and filling in the blanks.