I hate Samsung TV sets, a lot of people I know got one because they think they are great and yet the sound quality is awful, the picture seems dim and no contrast, even after fiddling with the menus, the menus are slow and the the TV build seems cheap and nasty.

What about channels that are not HD? with so many repeat from years back a lot of content is Sd anyway.

I have always found them satisfactory.

I just looked at my TV to see what's available in HD - BBC 1, 2, itv, C4 and C5 as well as the kids stuff. Then again, we are on a relay transmitter and only get 15 channels altogether (including the +1's).

I just tried African Queen on C5 then C5HD - no difference. Mind you my TV is 20" and was bought when we first went over to Freeview, so it's hardly the best TV in the world - but it does the job, I can watch (limited) TV shows on it, which is all that matters. The quality in image is a lot better than an old TV, so anything's an improvement I mostly watch online anyway! With the lack of channel choice, I'm hardly going to waste money buying a larger, fancier TV when I have a world of viewing available online.

I bet you're one of those loony lefties
Just admit some people are beyond rehabilitation

Most people have it in Dynamic or Standard. Which is usually, usually a highly saturated picture. Sharpness is usually quite high and full 1:1 pixel mapping is normally not set.

Then of course the horrible processing that creates the soap opera effect.


Most people don't know what a good picture is like as they're also used to a blue tint but they've been so used to it feels normal.

can't you move your sofa closer to the telly?

Back in my day we only had two channels...and!!!!......it was all black and white

Even better, get your eye-sight checked If you can't see a 50 screen and it's seeming smaller by the day, glasses might be in order (or a white stick ).

I treated myself earlier this year to an Amazon Echo, it's amazing. So, I brought Mum a Echo Dot, you can control your heating etc from it, she keeps shouting at it to play her music. I keep telling her you only need to speak clearly but she gets close to it and shouts into it. "Mum, you can speak to it from your chair, that's the point you don't have to keep getting up"

Who said anything about unable to see? I can clearly tell the differences between SD and HD whether it is 5ft or 12ft away but the fact remains 50 inches is small. 65 is the sweet spot.

I knew this thread would be full of tv snobs. If you don't tell me I'm watching SD or HD I probably wouldn't know. My teenage son can tell or so he reckons. Sometimes I actively choose SD when I'm opting for my exodus source as our internet can be crappy and there's usually less buffering on an SD source, don't ask me why.

If my son called me a moron, he'd be in big trouble.

I refuse to buy one of those unless there's a way to personalise the name it responds to. Same with Siri, won't use it until I can call it what I want.

OP! Your poor Mum! Have you shown her this? Personally I have HD on my TV and my parents have a big TV with HD and I truthfully don't notice any difference between HD and the usual channels. It might come on slightly louder but where the picture is concerned it looks the same to me.

the closer you are, the bigger it looks

Missus

luxury, we used to stare at a cornflakes box for our entertainment and we were glad of that

I only ever watch SD channels. I've seen HD a few times and never really noticed the difference, plus my TV isn't HD. It doesn't affect the quality of the programmes at all.

Mrs Brown's boys is a work of genius in HD

No I have not!

She would not let me visit her again for weeks, maybe months even if I showed her this thread.

In the good old days when we had Comet shops everywhere our local one had a TV demonstrating HD v SD. One half of the screen was in HD and the other in SD
I could not see any difference and despite the salesman's desperate efforts to persuade me of the benefits I bought a Toshiba 52" SD model
Perfect picture and just as good today

We get London local news instead of BBC South East on the BBC1 HD channel. Bloody beeb should sort themselves out!

There's no hope for your Mum if people haven't yet figured out they don't need to shout into a mobile phone

That is not a fact because a 50 inch tv is not small for a tv. Anything under 30 is something i would call small.

I have BT You View, but I can't tell the difference between SD and HD either. I get an excellent picture

No you haven't


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