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Anybody watches Standard def TV(576i/480i) on a 1366 X 768 LCD and likes the picture?

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    Anybody watches Standard def TV(576i/480i) on a 1366 X 768 LCD and likes the picture?

    Hi
    Do conventional SD broadcasts look good on LCD/Plasmas ?

    Do you like the picture? Or prefer CRT tubes for the best 480i/576i picture?
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    #2
    Well it looks kind of blurry on HDTVs but I still prefer it that the plain CRTs.
    Some cool info: Tibeten monks, after twenty years or so of practise in the Himalaya, control their brain stem - they can control their heart beat, blood pressure etc. After thirty years they can connect to the internet purely by meditation, setting TCP stacks in their neurons and stuff. Right now I am chatting with a monk who is sitting naked in an ice storm on his towel, his only possesion. He's using ipv6.

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      #3
      I think SD looks like CRAP on any hidef set.

      I love Battlestar Galactica but because it is only broadcast on SD I refuse to watch it and wait for the shows to come to DVD.

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        #4
        Originally posted by Renocide View Post
        I love Battlestar Galactica but because it is only broadcast on SD I refuse to watch it and wait for the shows to come to DVD.
        Wow you must be really picky then
        Some cool info: Tibeten monks, after twenty years or so of practise in the Himalaya, control their brain stem - they can control their heart beat, blood pressure etc. After thirty years they can connect to the internet purely by meditation, setting TCP stacks in their neurons and stuff. Right now I am chatting with a monk who is sitting naked in an ice storm on his towel, his only possesion. He's using ipv6.

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          #5
          It does look like ****, i have to say.
          “A common mistake people make, when trying to design something completely foolproof, is to underestimate ingenuity of complete fools” - Douglas Adams

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            #6
            Depends on what signal you got too. A crappy analog signal on a somewhat bigger TV won't be very pleasing to the eyes.
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              #7
              Analog broadcast looks sucky, digital broadcast (through cable box) is okay.
              The heart of the wise inclines to the right, but the heart of the fool to the left. - Ecclesiastes 10:2

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                #8
                Aren't DVD-s also supposed to look bad on LCDs because of native resolution issues? (We are assuming that the DVD player/ HDTV does not provide upscaling and uses native 480i/p)

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Renocide View Post
                  I think SD looks like CRAP on any hidef set.

                  I love Battlestar Galactica but because it is only broadcast on SD I refuse to watch it and wait for the shows to come to DVD.
                  The SD quality will depend on two things. How well your HDTV scales 480i/p material to its native resolution, and the quality of the SD source. These days lots of people get their SD through digital cable, and in many cases it's highly compressed, making it look like an old VCD.

                  And if your cable/sat provider gets the UniversalHD network, they air Battlestar in hi-def, although possibly delayed from its original airing on SciFi. It looks gooooood in hi-def.
                  "The Black Rider flung back his hood, and behold! he had a kingly crown; and yet upon no head visible was it set. The red fires shone between it and the mantled shoulders vast and dark. From a mouth unseen there came a deadly laughter. 'Old fool!' he said. 'Old fool! This is my hour. Do you not know Death when you see it? Die now and curse in vain!' And with that he lifted high his sword and flames ran down the blade."

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                    #10
                    Originally posted by bhanja_Trinanjan View Post
                    Aren't DVD-s also supposed to look bad on LCDs because of native resolution issues? (We are assuming that the DVD player/ HDTV does not provide upscaling and uses native 480i/p)
                    Your DVD's native resolution will be 480i or 480p, your LCD will have a different native resolution, most these days are 1366x768, but some are coming out at 1920x1080. Either in the DVD player or in the TV, the DVD image has to get scaled up to the TV's resolution. How it looks will depend on the quality of that scaling, as well as the quality of the de-interlacing or inverse telecining(converting 30fps video back to 24fps film). With most DVD players, the video gets converted from digital to analog before it's re-scaled, and once inside the TV it gets re-converted to digital. These conversions add to the quality loss. Newer DVD's with HDMI inputs often do their own scaling while the information is still in its original digital format, before sending it to the TV. Of course, these players will re-scale it to 720p or 1080i, requiring another re-scaling to the TV's native resolution. If your HDTV's built-in scaler is good, then setting the DVD player to leave the video at a digital 480 may be best, so the video only gets re-scaled once.
                    "The Black Rider flung back his hood, and behold! he had a kingly crown; and yet upon no head visible was it set. The red fires shone between it and the mantled shoulders vast and dark. From a mouth unseen there came a deadly laughter. 'Old fool!' he said. 'Old fool! This is my hour. Do you not know Death when you see it? Die now and curse in vain!' And with that he lifted high his sword and flames ran down the blade."

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                      #11
                      Thread moved to the forum which name I forgot at the time I am typing this post.

                      and yes, SD broadcasts look like **** on my LCD tv.
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                        #12
                        Originally posted by Slacker2003 View Post
                        Analog broadcast looks sucky, digital broadcast (through cable box) is okay.
                        not true. try living near NYC. Crystal clear analogue
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                          #13
                          every sd channel i get actually looks ok on my syntax brillian olevia 37" lcd. its 1280 x 720 i have the cable box outputing 720p for everything.

                          i wish i took these pictures a little better i had to manual focus i didn't have the settings set up right to have it auto focus in the dark w/o the flash on.

                          Charter Cable ( they suck)

                          Fox HD 720P



                          Discovery Standard 16:9 formatted Zoomed!! to fill screen and it looks ok



                          Fox Standard 4:3

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