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Is SD pic worse on bigger screens?
Whenever I look at televisions, the bog standard def Freeview picture usually looks more 'fizzy' on screens of 32" + than on the smaller size screens. Is this just the bigger screens showing up more 'flaws' or are smaller screens better able to cope with moving images?
I am beginning to think that it is better to buy a 26" screen rather than a 32" as the pictures look better. Perhaps it is because more picture information is compressed into a smaller area? |
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It can't get worse, its flaws can however be revealed. How ugly it looks depends on the level of processing to smooth out the mess over the extra pixels.Course at the low end of 32" many panels are low quality to begin with, never mind their video processing bits and bobs.
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Screen size makes no difference, it's screen size and VIEWING DISTANCE that does. If you watch a TV from too close, you see all the defects, or in the case of a CRT the lines that make up the screen - this is why SD has a certain MINIMUM viewing distance related to screen size.
HD however has a MAXIMUM viewing distance, you need to view from FAR closer than SD. |
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New tv's like LCD's are HD Ready. SD pictures are being upscaled to fit the screen size, which reveals all the imperfections on the SD picture. Some of this is down to the quality of the original material, while another, often bigger factor is the Freeview SD service which doesnt have enough capacity, and so picture quality suffers,
A smaller screen doesnt show the imperfections so much due to the screen being smaller. On a small (17inch?) screen the imperfections will be so small you wont hardly notice them. |
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Screen size makes no difference, it's screen size and VIEWING DISTANCE that does. If you watch a TV from too close, you see all the defects, or in the case of a CRT the lines that make up the screen - this is why SD has a certain MINIMUM viewing distance related to screen size.
HD however has a MAXIMUM viewing distance, you need to view from FAR closer than SD. |
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Screen size makes no difference, it's screen size and VIEWING DISTANCE that does. If you watch a TV from too close, you see all the defects, or in the case of a CRT the lines that make up the screen - this is why SD has a certain MINIMUM viewing distance related to screen size.
HD however has a MAXIMUM viewing distance, you need to view from FAR closer than SD. |
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New tv's like LCD's are HD Ready. SD pictures are being up-scaled to fit the screen size, which reveals all the imperfections on the SD picture. Some of this is down to the quality of the original material, while another, often bigger factor is the Freeview SD service which doesnt have enough capacity, and so picture quality suffer.
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So, if what David says is true, is the SD picture from satellite better than from transmitter? 'Which' (Consumers Association) recently stated that they reckon the HD picture is better from satellite than transmitter. If they gave the SAT pic 10 out of 10, the terrestrial picture quality would be 8.5.
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