Originally Posted by zandar:
“I visited a relative last weekend who had purchased a new "FULL HD READY"Hitachi 42" TV from Argos back in April for £400. I happened to take my Freesat HD recorder with me in order to show them how the HD channels would come out on their screen. On arrival, they said "that we already have HD". They were convinced that watching BBC 1 on Freeview channel 1 was in HD. Of course, when they saw the stunning pictures of BBC 1 HD & ITV HD coming from my box, they had to agree that what they had in fact purchased was a set with a HD capable 1080 pixel screen that had a tuner that was SD only.”
“I visited a relative last weekend who had purchased a new "FULL HD READY"Hitachi 42" TV from Argos back in April for £400. I happened to take my Freesat HD recorder with me in order to show them how the HD channels would come out on their screen. On arrival, they said "that we already have HD". They were convinced that watching BBC 1 on Freeview channel 1 was in HD. Of course, when they saw the stunning pictures of BBC 1 HD & ITV HD coming from my box, they had to agree that what they had in fact purchased was a set with a HD capable 1080 pixel screen that had a tuner that was SD only.”
This is nothing new, ever since HD TVs have been available people have been assuming that they'll get HD irrespective of source (although tbh technically they will). This is just the fault of uninformed customers and marketing bods who are happy not to correct this misapprehension.
Would you believe some so-called "HD Ready" TVs didn't even have a SD digital tuner. OMG!!!!!



