Full HD or HD ready?

onejontwo

I'm about to buy a 22"-24" tv for my MIL but is there any difference in picture quality between two identical tv's ie. Toshiba 22"-24" apart from one being full HD and the other HD ready, if the freeview box they'll be connected up to is normal freeview and not HD?

custardy

not at that screen size
of course remember they may not have scart.
no built in freeview?

I_have_spoken

I got a Samsung UE22F5410 22-inch Full-HD a few weeks back. With the Freeview-HD tuner it looks great, I'd not hesitate for the few extra £

closed

you may as well get a tv with a hd tuner built in, 22" is on the small side.

onejontwo

I've been looking at ones with a HD tuner but she likes the practicality of the ones with the built in dvd player and possibly built in freeview albeit non HD .So let me see if I've got this right, if it's normal freeview would one tv show the picture in 1080p and the other in 720p or is that only reserved for the HD channels?

custardy

onejontwo wrote: »

I've been looking at ones with a HD tuner but she likes the practicality of the ones with the built in dvd player and possibly built in freeview albeit non HD .So let me see if I've got this right, if it's normal freeview would one tv show the picture in 1080p and the other in 720p or is that only reserved for the HD channels?

SD freeview is 480p
HD freeview peaks at 1080i

SouthUKMan

Two thoughts. 1) For my money you really are not going to notice any real world difference between SD and HD on a 22 or 24" screen. If it was 32" or larger then you would see a difference. 2) I don't understand why you want to connect a new TV to a Freeview box? All new TVs have Freeview built in so you do not need an external box -unless you mean a YouView box (which is Freeview with the ability to use online catch up services and to record) or perhaps a Sky / Virgin box?

onejontwo

SouthUKMan wrote: »

Two thoughts. 1) For my money you really are not going to notice any real world difference between SD and HD on a 22 or 24" screen. If it was 32" or larger then you would see a difference. 2) I don't understand why you want to connect a new TV to a Freeview box? All new TVs have Freeview built in so you do not need an external box -unless you mean a YouView box (which is Freeview with the ability to use online catch up services and to record) or perhaps a Sky / Virgin box?

The freeview box she has is a freeview recorder and so has the ability to record her favourite shows.

thor

I have a 32 inch full HD tv with freeview HD built in and I also have a non HD freeview recorder connected to it via scart and I can see hardly any difference in picture quality between the recorder and the built in HD freeview of the tv(in my opinion of course).
Also if you get a tv with a non HD freeview tuner, it won't pick up any of the HD channels(if that is what you were asking at the end of post 5)

droopsnoot

I believe it depends on the distance you would be watching from. This page (http://carltonbale.com/1080p-does-matter/) is a bit aimed at home theatre configurations and the graph doesn't really work for smaller TVs, but you can extrapolate or search 'hd tv distance graph' to see some others.

I was reading a thread about it the other day, but can't for the life of me remember where it was.

indesisiv

onejontwo wrote: »

The freeview box she has is a freeview recorder and so has the ability to record her favourite shows.

I have this same setup. SD Freeview recorder, then the HD freeview on my TV. Normal day to day usage, i just use the TV freeview. Then if i want to record or watch something i have recorded then i just turn on the other box and the tv automatically goes to that input.