Digital TV

[Ken L]

I've just read the BBC's Q&A on digital TV.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/t...dio/4248774.stm

What a joke.

They're still trotting out the cr@p about digital TV offering better pictures. I know this is bit like the old vinyl vs CD debate but having had chance to compare a really good analogue picture side by side with Sky on a good quality CRT TV, believe me it's not true.

 

They're also finally waking up to the fact that a lot of older people are not looking forward to a switch off of anologue services and don't own TV's that can accept a SCART and can't afford a replacement set.

 

The funniest thing though is that they're absolutely desperate to try to avoid any mention of HDTV which is due to start rolling out next year. They keep foegetting to include obvious sections in their Q&A briefs.

Q: I've just gone out and spent three grand in a brand new plasma TV with an integrated digital digital decoder. Will it be obsolete before analogue broadcasting is even turned off ?

A: Yes !

[Slack lines]

I'd never heard of HDTV Ken, untill I read THIS

 

It looks like it could be a goer

[Andrew Boyd]

CRT quality is still better than Plasma / LCD etc but things are getting closer than they were. If you must have a flat screen it's best not to go for the larger models . . to few pixels etc unless your prepared to sit a distance away . . but what's the point.

Yep . . await HDTV and you'll be astounded by the picture.

[Ken L]

HDTV is already up and running in the US, Japan and Australia – albeit with differences in the systems they are using. For movies, it’s a simple case of capturing a HD copy of the film image for broadcast and most major networks have been producing HD compatible content for a couple of years. When HD broadcasting goes live, there is no lack of material ready and waiting to be broadcast.

 

I saw early lazer disc based demonstrations of the Japanese system about 15 years ago and most impressive it is too. If anyone living near Birmingham wants to get some idea of what all the fuss is about, Dixons have had a 50” LG Plasma running in the doorway of their Bullring store for a couple of months and that’s running a HD demo to impress the punters. Very impressive it is too – “Like looking through a window” as one mate of mine described it

 

[ 15. September 2005, 05:14 PM: Message edited by: Ken L ]

[chesters1]

youve already got hdtv ,your looking at the screen right now! all you need is a nice person to broadcast it and a card manufacturer to sell the card to let you recieve it (although there are digital cards already in use for digital transmissions)

the 625 lines have lost the edge especially with the larger screens we have now ,the bigger the screen the fatter the lines need to be but theres still only 625 however big it is.

no analogue set using 625 lines will be able to use hdtv and only a box that reduces it to 625 lines could be used in the future ,you cant convert a 625 tv to hdtv the problem lies within the tube itself ,tubes cost more than the tv there in (to replace) so you use 625 or shell out for a pukker hdtv

625 lines wont disapear over night so your tv's safe ,theres money in selling a box to reduce the hdtv to 625 and you can bet there designing it now

 

[ 15. September 2005, 08:49 PM: Message edited by: chesters1 ]