Re-HDTV

joe134

Toxteth_OGrady wrote: »

DVD isn't an HD format.

TOG, you have helped me in the past,and I,ve appreciated it, BUT, your 2 x1 liners on here, aint very helpful. The Guy in the shop said it was a DVD loop, for display purposes only, so it must have been blueray,but, he didn,t state that.I admit, I didn,t do enough homework, but when HD is all over the box, and your told it will plug and play Hd, you tend to believe them.
If it needed a HD freeview tuner,to watch hd, it really should be stated on the box, or in the Manual,or, more to the point, on the display model, IT ISN,T anywhere. I bet there will be umpteen punters like me, who bought them , they were always out of stock when I looked. You said I could buy a tuner, perhaps you can kindly tell me where,? not a recorder, just a freeview set top hd tuner?

torbrex

My TV is HD ready and it says in the manual that a seperate box is required to receive HD channels

Freeview HD set-top boxes are available in Argos for about £60 but watch out, they sometimes don't include the connecting cable :mad:

joe134

torbrex wrote: »

My TV is HD ready and it says in the manual that a seperate box is required to receive HD channels

Freeview HD set-top boxes are available in Argos for about £60 but watch out, they sometimes don't include the connecting cable :mad:

Thanks torbrex, I,ve looked at a couple online at humux, but, the info is quite confusing. They gave thier top ten, up to £190. expensive.. The manual doesn,t mention anything regarding HD at all.
Am I correct in assuming that, because I need a booster, which i,ve used for 18 years, 4 way, that, the HD box, is put inline same as the digi boxes I,ve got now on other tv,s.
I:E, Aerial coax to booster, then to HD box, then HD leads to new HD Tv , and I need a new HD box for each new HD tv ? :beer:

torbrex

joe134 wrote: »

Thanks torbrex, I,ve looked at a couple online at humux, but, the info is quite confusing. They gave thier top ten, up to £190. expensive.. The manual doesn,t mention anything regarding HD at all.
Am I correct in assuming that, because I need a booster, which i,ve used for 18 years, 4 way, that, the HD box, is put inline same as the digi boxes I,ve got now on other tv,s.
I:E, Aerial coax to booster, then to HD box, then HD leads to new HD Tv , and I need a new HD box for each new HD tv ? :beer:

I don't have an HD box so I am not sure about the set-up but what you describe sounds about right.
There may be a clever way to split the signal from the HD box to 2 TV's but there would be a loss of quality of signal.

Toxteth_OGrady

joe134 wrote: »

I:E, Aerial coax to booster, then to HD box, then HD leads to new HD Tv , and I need a new HD box for each new HD tv ? :beer:

Correct.


If you don't want/need hard disk recording function built into the box (HD Tuner/PVR) then look at something like the Icecrypt T2300 or Philips DTR5520.

joe134

Toxteth_OGrady wrote: »

Correct.


If you don't want/need hard disk recording function built into the box (HD Tuner/PVR) then look at something like the Icecrypt T2300 or Philips DTR5520.

Thank you TOG, much appreciated.I,m sure the Icecrypt was one of the top ten on Humax I looked at earlier, I will look again.:beer:

Toxteth_OGrady

http://www.google.co.uk/products/catalog?hl=en&q=icecrypt+t2300&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&bvm=bv.1355534169,d.d2k&bpcl=40096503&biw=1882&bih=1085&um=1&ie=UTF-8&cid=10598071401606364012&sa=X&ei=SGvhUMSwNYbB0gWo0IDYCw&ved=0CEwQ8wIwAA#scoring=tps

nembot

I find the term "HD-Ready" rather ambiguous, as some TV's have a native resolution of 1366/768 which meant they couldn't display either 720p or 1080p correctly and the image was "scaled" by the internal hardware.

Luckily this is not the case so much today, but the term is still rather confusing.

Toxteth_OGrady

nembot wrote: »

I find the term "HD-Ready" rather ambiguous, as some TV's have a native resolution of 1366/768 which meant they couldn't display either 720p or 1080p correctly and the image was "scaled" by the internal hardware.

Luckily this is not the case so much today, but the term is still rather confusing.

http://www.digitaleurope.org/HighDefinitionFastFacts.aspx

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nembot wrote: »

I find the term "HD-Ready" rather ambiguous,

Yes, the term was introduced at a time prior to Freeview HD being available and when Sky HD was in it's infancy. I think the idea was to try to avoid the confusion which might be caused by referring to flat screen TV sets as "HD TV".

People might think it would have HD pictures without any external source rather like a colour TV has colour.

Now, because Freeview HD is built into many sets as standard, the phrase has become rather outmoded. In addition, there are licensing agreements for some TVs to be "HDTV 1080P" etc which further clouds the issue.

As I said earlier in the thread though, if you want a reasonable HD service with multiple HD channel choice IMHO, you need to subscribe to Sky or Virgin and/or get a Blu-Ray player.

I regard all HDTVs as simply monitors, unless you feed them with HD from additional sources. Freeview HD simply is not adequate.