Vent: If you want the picture to be 3D, switch the glasses on!

paddyrg

Frames, fields, framerates and refresh rates, transmission carrier frequencies, channel (variable) bandwidth, multiplexing, codecs, the punter stands no chance. I know loads of people who think films look filmic because they are shot at 24fps, not 25, despite being played out with a 48fps refresh rate - and that is nice simple-to-undertsand film with a strip of pictures on it.

And frankly most of the demo signals in stores to show off HDTV look AWFUL anyway (mpeg banding of gradients, mosquitoes on lettering, supersaturated colour and overbright - and even worse with an SD signal!). I'm surprised any sets ever get sold.

Absolutely

Wow vyle, that's the mother of all rants! (but I'll be bearing all those points in mind the next time I go shopping for technology!)

Apples2

As others have alluded to vyle, if people didn't need stupid questions answering, you'd be on the old king cole.

It is what your employers have given you a job for.

geordieracer

To put it nicely Vyle - people are thick.

KimYeovil

How hard is it to spell 'Blu-ray' correctly?

Azari

geordieracer wrote: »

To put it nicely Vyle - people are thick.

Yes, because everybody should automatically know everything.

Azari

KimYeovil wrote: »

How hard is it to spell 'Blu-ray' correctly?

It becomes more difficult when pretentious little gits name something using a misspelled, common, word!

brian_723

Time to get an other job me thinks .

delain

vikingaero wrote: »

I'd like to rant about everything being changed to 3D. 3D TV's 3D Nintendos, 3D Phones. Seriously who needs 3D all the time? Am I one of the few people that don't duck when watching something 3D in a cinema.

And me :hello:

Since my eyes don't work together (and never have, I even had surgery as a child for it but to no avail) I am unable to use ANY 3D glasses. The images just flick between red and green where my eyes can't adjust to it and it gives me a headache :mad:

Am I going to be able to watch TV at all 5 years from now?!

ETA We were researching a new TV recently, went into Currys and was astounded by how all the people on the TV screens looked as orange as David Dickinson :eek: I don't think turning the colour up that high is a good sales technique either!

geordieracer

Azari wrote: »

Yes, because everybody should automatically know everything.

Well you appear to think you do.

if people cant read a sign that says they need to be switched on then its a good assumption that they must be either very thick or very stupid.

Which one are you?