Posted by Jeff Rife on 09/27/05 15:22

Dick Sidbury (DrJamesSidbury@hotmail.com) wrote in alt.video.dvd:
> OK, Jeff (or anyone else), I'd like your opinion of HD. I have a 61"
> Sony 4x3 with anamorphic squeeze and 1080i input. WHen i go to an HD
> channel on DISH and set it to 1080i, I get a really good picture. BUT,
> that picture doesn't seem to me to be that much better than a decent DVD
> played with anamorphic squeeze. What's your opinion?

I hate to say this, but it's likely you're suffering from a poor TV design.

When your TV "squeezes" 1080 lines down, something has to give. Either the
TV is designed so that the distance between scan lines is optimal for the
"unsqueezed" 4:3 picture or the "squeezed" 16:9 picture. It's likely that
the 4:3 picture is actually set up as optimal, because some overlap of
scan lines is required.

This is going to reduce the quality of the HD picture a bit. It should
still be better than DVD, but maybe not as stunningly different as it would
be on a 16:9 set.

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