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Posted by Rolo Tomassi on 01/19/07 23:52
Temsonic wrote:
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.
Yep, yep, yep and yep. Sky HD doesn't have the bandwidth - it's HD when the
picture stops for a second but when there's movement it's uber-compressed.
YUK! All the LCDs do is make that far more obvious. Playing crap quality
music on a good hifi is much more painful than playing crap quality music on
a kitchen radio - same effect.
HD is only worth it if you have a good HD source (BR/HD-DVD) and a big hi
def display like front projection. Then it's awesome :)
Rolo
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