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Sick of HD being rammed down my throat
Mr Giggles
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I don't watch SKY ONE normally but the latest season of Law and Order is on and I watch it live.
I'm just sick and bloody tired of HD being constantly advertised.
Even Hallmark are getting on my nerves with this HD shit, I can just about afford SKY+ and when my mother croaks I will have to get rid SKY altogether and use freeview.
Even the programs on TV have HD banners....
I'm just sick and bloody tired of HD being constantly advertised.
Even Hallmark are getting on my nerves with this HD shit, I can just about afford SKY+ and when my mother croaks I will have to get rid SKY altogether and use freeview.
Even the programs on TV have HD banners....
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However, HD itself is becoming the product rather than the content. When I watch something in HD I am always judging the picture quality because that's how it's marketed. It should be primarily about the program content. It'll probably become the norm in a few years like widescreen did (with a few who are still lagging behind, of course).
It will be a niche product at best.
Surprised at their over promotion. Their HD channel is nothing to be proud of. Naff all HD, widescreen imports in 4:3 and even their trailers aren't widescreen, let alone HD.
It's extremely annoying the amount from Sky especially. The constant promotion is all part of the HD = Sky = Pay TV brainwashing that worked so well with SD.
Absolutely agree with this.
3D will never (in our generation) become mainstream TV. It's really just a gimmick, OK niche, I'll be kind.
Unlike HDTV, which like colour and widescreen, will eventually become mainstream, well within a generation.
I'm with you two, this whole 3D malarkey just don't flat my boat at all. It's a techno-geek thing that us mere mortals will look upon with bemusement.
An LG spokesman a few weeks back said, 'if' 3D tv takes off it will be "at least 15 to 20 years away" commenting that HD will have to common place first
I agree. Having watched a 3D demonstration in a store it is impressive, but I think if someone did spend all of that money on a 3D TV it would only be a matter of time before the novelty wore off. Wearing the glasses all of the time would annoy me and, to be honest, I see very little point to it apart from as a marketing gimmick.
As for HD, I have Freesat and I do enjoy the both the BBC and ITV HD content, I believe there will be a second BBC HD channel launching in the autumn. But for me it is as much about the improved sound as much as the improved picture. Later... With Jools Holland is particularly impressive as it is also broadcase in surround sound.
I used them when I watched 3D TV in a shop a while ago and I looked a bit stupid in the glasses after a while
I know exactly what you mean - that's why I think it will never really catch on. Certainly not as much as the industry would like it to!
They had a 3D TV in Curry's the other week and I found this very poor.
I don't know if it was set up right.
But as soon as I put the glasses on I got a headache.
If 3D ever takes off I will be a non-viewer.
Never spend more than about £15-£20 on an HDMI cable. Anything more is a waste of money and will not make any difference. Anyone who says their HDMI cable will "give you more colours" or anything is talking crap.
HDMI is digital, the signal is perfect or it isn't. And magazines have tested a £15 HDMI from Tesco at 6.5 mb and had zero errors.
If you need to run a HDMI for twenty or thirty feet then may be worth spending more. Otherwise don't.
Many shows will push expensive HDMI cables because they make a fortune from them.
I am currently using a 50p cable from play.com, gives a perfect picture.
As you say the picture/sound will either get from the Virgin box to the TV or it wont!
You have a small TV, the bigger the TV, the bigger the difference is and the worse SD looks.
It was the same back in the 80s when stereo sound was first introduced.
Don't you remember the captions stating something along the lines of "In stereo where available"?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6_1bNYpMmM&feature=related
I suspect that pornography will have a huge
Haven't many technologies been at least partly driven by porn - VHS recorders, DVDs, certainly the web, even HD?
So I don't think 90 minutes would be much of a problem, as long as it's more than 90 seconds.:D:p
32", 42" or 50" I just don't see this 5 times better picture, 32" is more than large enough a TV for me.