re-HD READY ?

Richie-from-the-Boro

Polaroid were / was a company till 2001 its now nothing but a licensing vessel / name. The maker is in fact this Chinese company called Proview International Holdings . Proview sets can be bought all around the globe under different brand names. Most OEM small panel LCD's use LG-Phillips manufactured panels these days, but just because it has a good [ish] panel won't make it a good TV without quality processing feeding the panel.

The LG for example, spoken of in this thread is by comparison a solid built and excellent product for the price point.

joe134

penrhyn wrote: »

Looks like Polaroid is a brand name used by Asda for its range of TVs, Nothing to do with the old Polaroid Land camera business. Similar to Technica at Tesco, or other sopermarket brands, Bush, Goodmans, Onn etc.

That,s what I thought too, as they have a polaroid shop on thier site.Although there are other polaroid TV,s online, but higher spec, 5>£600 range.
but not from polaroid direct.Goodmans ,stillgot one of thier TV,s now, and set top box, good.;; a tv ,s a tv to me now.
I was into HIFI when I was younger, BUT, I was listening for the noise, instead of the music, when comparing systems.

timbo58

Indeed, I have a polaroid DAB radio for the kitchen: it's ok and quite nice looking however I wouldn't spend IRO £300 on a TV made by them if it's any example: it's the same as most branded goods -a pale imitation of a better make.

Daz2009

Polaroid are stil lin the camera business,well the name is at least

http://www.polaroid.co.uk/

joe134

timbo58 wrote: »

Indeed, I have a polaroid DAB radio for the kitchen: it's ok and quite nice looking however I wouldn't spend IRO £300 on a TV made by them if it's any example: it's the same as most branded goods -a pale imitation of a better make.

I,ve just bought 2,at that price, and off to buy another next week, as they all use the same parts, they cannot be an immitation, replication,perhaps;;.
I,ve had Sony, jvc et.al, over the years , also got dab, radio, and I,ve had more trouble with BRANDED goods than any of them.
The best , reliable dog, is a mongrel.
It,s the name you are paying for, and I aint in to designer goods.
70 years experience is my guide;
("it's the same as most branded goods -a pale imitation of a better make."[/QUOTE;;rather a contradiction in terms ???same/imitation?) make your mind up.

Take the badge off a Skoda, and you have a VW, or Audi, they share the same body, and parts.but a big price difference

joe134

Daz2009 wrote: »

Polaroid are stil lin the camera business,well the name is at least

http://www.polaroid.co.uk/

I checked them out, thinking they might have adirect connection to the TV,s, but apparently not.

almillar

I think you got your info eventually, but it wasn't very clear and quite confusing.
HD Ready isn't a marketing term, it's an industry agreed standard. For a TV to display this, it must have at least 720 lines on the screen, and at least 1 HDMI port. That's it. No mention of the tuner inside. Idea being, when you get an HD source (PS3, Sky HD etc) the TV is READY for them.
There are 2 versions of HD. 720p and 1080p (OK, plus interlaced but keep it simple). So to separate the newer and more expensive sets, individual manufacturers would put stickers on saying 'Full HD'. This is NOT an industry standard but has come to be understood as a 1080p screen, but ignores whether there's an HD tuner built in. The screens were there before the tuners, and that sticker should really have said Full HD Ready, as it still needed you to plug something in to get an HD picture. The result is confusion! So you have to look for an HD screen, plus an HD tuner (FreeviewHD or FreesatHD) inside.

sebastianj

Thanx Almillar, don't know about any one else but has helped me, thanks.
sebastian

InsideInsurance

almillar wrote: »

There are 2 versions of HD. 720p and 1080p (OK, plus interlaced but keep it simple)

Plus 2k plus 4k and in time presumably more

jase1

Richie-from-the-Boro wrote: »

just because it has a good [ish] panel won't make it a good TV without quality processing feeding the panel.

Not entirely true.

This is the case when looking at the internal tuner of the TV.

However, when plugging a TV into a STB using HDMI, and set to the native resolution of the panel, the signal is uncompressed HD and is sent pretty much as-is to the panel.

Under these specific conditions, one TV will perform more or less identically to another with the same panel.

Since this is exactly what most people do these days (HD PVR or Sky+HD or Virgin TiVo etc), the case for spending more on a better set for picture quality is less compelling than it used to be.

In the bedroom, I have an M&S (Cello) 39" LCD which I bought in a recent sale, directly connected to a Freeview HD receiver. HD picture quality is as good as anything else on the market; SD is reliant on the scaler in the STB itself; admittedly the built-in tuner's performance is pretty poor but in context this really matters little.