What do you guys think of HDTV? I got a TV for games and movies but it has an HD tuner in it. Been watching mostly PBS which has an HD station, and all the other local stations have random HD material on them. I have to admit the HD stuff in 720 or 1080 looks incredible! WAY clearer, cleaner, more detailed, better color than the best normal TV and quite a bit better than DVDs.
My DVD player upscales regular DVD to HD resolutions and it works great. It's a Samsung, but there is probably better out there, but it scales very nicely and I can see more details than I've ever seen from my DVDs. It's a pleasure to watch them all over again and see things with more detail. I can't WAIT for HD DVDs now. I looked at HD DVD at Best buy last week but both the HD and the BLU RAY machines were hung - locked up - and needed unplugged to reset. Bleed edge technology. They got the Blu ray working and played a demo disk that looked really good on the LCD they had, BUT in scaling the HD movie to fit, there were blob/spots happening. I have no idea why that was and the ignorant sales guys was like "you dont see those further away" and I said, "No, it's glitched. It's too obvious of a mess up to go unnotticed." anyway it has a lot of potential. DVDs loose alot from movies when they get put on there, but HD should be able to render as much detail as possible
I noticed half of our theaters are now DLP Projectors - probably just a movie version of HD DVDs beign used.... but they look great and dont seem to suffer problems that film projectiion did. I was worried at first, but it does look clearer and better now. Des Moines has the largest number of screen per peopl or something, cuz all we do is eat out and goto movies... I guess.... so they do lots of tests previews and experiments with technology to see how it works before releasing to REAL people. Besides, you don't want to try something that sucks, in the middle of LA where everyone is watching.
Back to HD TV. screen looks AWESOME on HDTV, very great with upscaled DVDS, really great for video games - although REALLY TIGHT games like fighting games don't work because there is some processing lag for the scaling and plasma, regualr SD TV is 'OK' but almost unwatchable by comparison now - I've disabled all but one SD channel.
Antennas: any normal antenna works fine with HD. I'm using my old but decent rabbit ears. There are new antennas made for HD but I have yet to read they REALLY do any better. Because I am in a 3 story apartment on the 1st floor, my reception is pretty bad sometimes. This translates digitally into large chucky squares all over the screen instead of reception snow and the audio drops out completely. I can live with it because I don't care about TV much
Summery: I am extremely pleased with HD and think it really is a great thing. Eventually pricing will make it a household norm much like color TV is now, and nobody will think HD is GREAT because it is just normal.
here's a blurry pic of Tourist Trophy. I can't hold the camera steady enough but it looks pretty good. Riding a busa of course at Laguna Seca
My DVD player upscales regular DVD to HD resolutions and it works great. It's a Samsung, but there is probably better out there, but it scales very nicely and I can see more details than I've ever seen from my DVDs. It's a pleasure to watch them all over again and see things with more detail. I can't WAIT for HD DVDs now. I looked at HD DVD at Best buy last week but both the HD and the BLU RAY machines were hung - locked up - and needed unplugged to reset. Bleed edge technology. They got the Blu ray working and played a demo disk that looked really good on the LCD they had, BUT in scaling the HD movie to fit, there were blob/spots happening. I have no idea why that was and the ignorant sales guys was like "you dont see those further away" and I said, "No, it's glitched. It's too obvious of a mess up to go unnotticed." anyway it has a lot of potential. DVDs loose alot from movies when they get put on there, but HD should be able to render as much detail as possible
I noticed half of our theaters are now DLP Projectors - probably just a movie version of HD DVDs beign used.... but they look great and dont seem to suffer problems that film projectiion did. I was worried at first, but it does look clearer and better now. Des Moines has the largest number of screen per peopl or something, cuz all we do is eat out and goto movies... I guess.... so they do lots of tests previews and experiments with technology to see how it works before releasing to REAL people. Besides, you don't want to try something that sucks, in the middle of LA where everyone is watching.
Back to HD TV. screen looks AWESOME on HDTV, very great with upscaled DVDS, really great for video games - although REALLY TIGHT games like fighting games don't work because there is some processing lag for the scaling and plasma, regualr SD TV is 'OK' but almost unwatchable by comparison now - I've disabled all but one SD channel.
Antennas: any normal antenna works fine with HD. I'm using my old but decent rabbit ears. There are new antennas made for HD but I have yet to read they REALLY do any better. Because I am in a 3 story apartment on the 1st floor, my reception is pretty bad sometimes. This translates digitally into large chucky squares all over the screen instead of reception snow and the audio drops out completely. I can live with it because I don't care about TV much
Summery: I am extremely pleased with HD and think it really is a great thing. Eventually pricing will make it a household norm much like color TV is now, and nobody will think HD is GREAT because it is just normal.
here's a blurry pic of Tourist Trophy. I can't hold the camera steady enough but it looks pretty good. Riding a busa of course at Laguna Seca
