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Posted by Temsonic on 01/18/07 22:29
"Dr Zoidberg" <alexNOOOOOO!!!!!!!@drzoidberg.co.uk> wrote in message
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> The Thing wrote:
>> So, i'm having a conversation at work this morning, with several
>> like-minded individuals....
>>
>> The conclusion of the conversation is, some people like HD-DVD, some
>> like Blu-Ray...No surprise there...
>>
>> NONE of them are going to take a chance on buying one or the other....
>>
>> The Majority don't even think LG's multi-format machine is the
>> answer, cos you may still buy films in Blu-ray and then find HD-DVD
>> comes out on top, or vice versa....
>>
>> But the subject of my little poll is this....
>>
>> If there was only one High Definition DVD format, would you have
>> brought a machine by now?
>
> No.
>
> For a more considered reply , I can't get a hi-def display in the size I
> want , for the price I want and with the image quality I want.
> It's that that is holding me back more than the format war between
> players.
>
> Once I can spend 500 on a 37-40" screen of sufficiently high quality and
> resolution I will buy one and replace my perfectly good 32" CRT.
> I won't buy before then unless the CRT explodes as I still think the image
> quality on all but the most expensive flat panels isn't as good.
>
> If I could get the flat panel I wanted I'd buy whichever games console I
> preferred and use that to play hi-def films.
>
> I have no intention of paying for sky HD. It's far too expensive just to
> watch tv
Thoroughly agree with everything you say. I have a conspiracy theory that
all HD does is attempt to bring LCD and plasma screens up to something
resembling the perceived quality we've been used to on CRT for years.
Standard def material on current affordable LCDs looks awful in comparison
to CRT. Like you, I have no intention of paying Sky extra just to have a few
channels in HD, and the one demo I've seen of Sky HD was totally uninspiring
to say the least. It was in Currys so possibly it could have been set up
better, but all I could see was nasty MPEG posterisation effects.
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