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TheNightWatchman:
I watched Casino Royale blu-ray (through PS3) on a 60" Sony Bravia Plasma 1080p... it looked REALLY good. With HD those TVs are really worth in my opinion. Problem is, not even FoxTel (sky equiv.) here is in HD... so you watch a DVD or normal TV with a TV that big... it looks terrible!
I agree Quantum that some movies have yet to catch up encoding wise on HD, but it won't be long until that is there.
I also don't understand why anyone supports HD DVD (well except paramount... with the "incentive" they got).
I've never actually seen HD on a 32" screen though... Those don't seem to bad for SD either because they're small?
Quantum:
--- Quote from: TheNightWatchman on September 01, 2007, 02:38:50 pm ---I watched Casino Royale blu-ray (through PS3) on a 60" Sony Bravia Plasma 1080p... it looked REALLY good. With HD those TVs are really worth in my opinion. Problem is, not even FoxTel (sky equiv.) here is in HD... so you watch a DVD or normal TV with a TV that big... it looks terrible!
I agree Quantum that some movies have yet to catch up encoding wise on HD, but it won't be long until that is there.
I also don't understand why anyone supports HD DVD (well except paramount... with the "incentive" they got).
I've never actually seen HD on a 32" screen though... Those don't seem to bad for SD either because they're small?
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HD DVD is cheaper to make and has cheaper players, primarily uses higher quality codecs, supports Picture in Picture, has compulsory Ethernet port at the back of the HD DVD for firmware updates.
Blu-Ray has a lot of its movies in mpeg2, which is lower quality and negates its larger file size capacity. Also BD Java is being updated at the end of the year to such a specification that new Blu-Ray movies might not work on some old Blu-Ray players.
So far I'm well in to the HD DVD band camp.
I watch HD on my 19 inch computer monitor, so lol, I guess.
Synbios:
Don't get an HDTV if you're going to be playing standard (480 or 576) on it. I just got a 32' CRT from LG and the picture looks beautiful when I run 1080i or 720p, but as soon as I play some standard material, it looks worse than my 10 year old trinitron!
Quantum:
--- Quote from: Synbios on September 02, 2007, 04:24:16 am ---Don't get an HDTV if you're going to be playing standard (480 or 576) on it. I just got a 32' CRT from LG and the picture looks beautiful when I run 1080i or 720p, but as soon as I play some standard material, it looks worse than my 10 year old trinitron!
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Quality of standard definition is very dependent on the way your T.V scales. CRTs are by far the easiest to make standard definition look good because they can be built to output at multiple different resolutions, where as on a TFT you are mapping one resolution to another, CRTs are also quite forgiving in terms of low quality picture as they tend to 'fuzz' it up a little to produce a higher quality than it actually is.
I'd check your manual to make sure there isn't a special setting for Standard Definition, otherwise that's unfortunately what you get with some HD TVs.
Synbios:
I tried looking through the manual and I can't seem to find anything. Right now I have a DVI->HDMI cable going from my computer to the TV. My old setup was a S-video cable going to the trinitron.
Maybe it's because I'm running SD through HDMI that the TV is getting confused. I'm going to try and hookup a standard DVD player with S-video eventually and see what that looks like.
The LG makes the SD material look really fuzzy as you said. The trinitron was a lot sharper.
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