JPG wrote:
Saw a demo in Comet yesterday. It was filmed material on a 50" DLP
rearpro set (Panasonic I think).

I was somewhat underwhelmed - it had a grainy appearance and a poor
off-centre response due to the rearpro screen and looked no better
than the projector/screen system we have at work in the conference
room. Surely a better demo would be straight HD video on a good
quality HD Plasma or LCD?

JPG

Sounds like a combination of poor setup and grainy source material. I've
seen HD displays at Wal-Mart and a proper setup with a good source can blow
you away.

Even with my antique (donated by a friend) TV hooked to an HD-STB the
picture is sharper & cleaner than DVD. That and the price of programming
isn't bad (free).

Don't worry, HD will get better in the UK, once HD-DVD takes off.

;-)

Andrew Cheadle
Dover, DE, USA
watching HD from Baltimore & Philadelphia.

Charlie Pearce wrote:
On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 22:05:34 GMT, "DAB sounds worse than FM"
wrote:

Ad wrote:
David wrote:


demo would be straight HD video on a good quality HD Plasma or
LCD?



Would not trust Comet, Currys, Dixons or the like for a demo.


Since 99% of the people will buy their systems from these shops, it
do not look good for HDTV then.


Why are you incapable of writing the word 'does'? You ALWAYS write
'do' when you should write 'does':

I find it more annoying that he ALWAYS writes 'got' instead of 'have'
or 'has':

"I am not a fan of ABC1, but it got to be better than another ITV
channel"

"after all, if we got to fork out for a digital box, we should get
something for our money."

"Anyway, unless you got a huge room, you may as well stay with a
normal CRT set"

"I expect you got bad analogue then, those of us with very good
analogue can tell the difference and digital is very poor."

"As I said, people in this country got no guts"

Very annoying.

Charlie

I don't know why people don't just killfile the illiterate luddite. ;-)
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Charlie Pearce wrote:

On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 22:05:34 GMT, "DAB sounds worse than FM"
wrote:

Ad wrote:
David wrote:

Since 99% of the people will buy their systems from these shops, it
do
not look good for HDTV then.


Why are you incapable of writing the word 'does'? You ALWAYS write 'do'
when you should write 'does':

I find it more annoying that he ALWAYS writes 'got' instead of 'have'
or 'has':


I do not see why you've got to do this sort of pedantry .

I does not either.


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On Tue, 05 Apr 2005 17:04:10 +0100, JPG
wrote:

Saw a demo in Comet yesterday. It was filmed material on a 50" DLP rearpro set
(Panasonic I think).

Out of interest, how was the material being fed to the screen? AIUI
the only devices that will give a proper HD output are the HDTV STBs
in the USA and Australia (which wouldn't have anything to pick up),
HD-DVD players (which haven't hit the market yet) or PCs with a DVI
output. Since it's Comet we're talking about I wouldn't be all that
surprised if the high definition of the picture had been lost
somewhere along the way...

Charlie

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JPG wrote:
Saw a demo in Comet yesterday. It was filmed material on a 50" DLP
rearpro set (Panasonic I think).

I was somewhat underwhelmed - it had a grainy appearance and a poor
off-centre response due to the rearpro screen and looked no better
than the projector/screen system we have at work in the conference
room. Surely a better demo would be straight HD video on a good
quality HD Plasma or LCD?

JPG

Sounds like a combination of poor setup and grainy source material. I've
seen HD displays at Wal-Mart and a proper setup with a good source can
blow
you away.

Even with my antique (donated by a friend) TV hooked to an HD-STB the
picture is sharper & cleaner than DVD. That and the price of programming
isn't bad (free).

Don't worry, HD will get better in the UK, once HD-DVD takes off.

;-)


Well I hope not HDTV uses about 5 times the bandwidth which means
we would be back to 5 or 6 channels on our terrestrial digital TV :O(



Andrew Cheadle
Dover, DE, USA
watching HD from Baltimore & Philadelphia.

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"Drewdawg" wrote in message
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JPG wrote:
Saw a demo in Comet yesterday. It was filmed material on a 50" DLP
rearpro set (Panasonic I think).

I was somewhat underwhelmed - it had a grainy appearance and a poor
off-centre response due to the rearpro screen and looked no better
than the projector/screen system we have at work in the conference
room. Surely a better demo would be straight HD video on a good
quality HD Plasma or LCD?

JPG

Sounds like a combination of poor setup and grainy source material. I've
seen HD displays at Wal-Mart and a proper setup with a good source can
blow
you away.

Even with my antique (donated by a friend) TV hooked to an HD-STB the
picture is sharper & cleaner than DVD. That and the price of programming
isn't bad (free).

Don't worry, HD will get better in the UK, once HD-DVD takes off.

;-)


Well I hope not HDTV uses about 5 times the bandwidth which means
we would be back to 5 or 6 channels on our terrestrial digital TV :O(

And this would be a bad thing?

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Adrian wrote:


I don't know why people don't just killfile the illiterate luddite. ;-)

Oh **** off you ****ing ****

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"Drewdawg" wrote in message
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JPG wrote:
Saw a demo in Comet yesterday. It was filmed material on a 50" DLP
rearpro set (Panasonic I think).

I was somewhat underwhelmed - it had a grainy appearance and a poor
off-centre response due to the rearpro screen and looked no better
than the projector/screen system we have at work in the conference
room. Surely a better demo would be straight HD video on a good
quality HD Plasma or LCD?

JPG

Sounds like a combination of poor setup and grainy source material.
I've
seen HD displays at Wal-Mart and a proper setup with a good source can
blow
you away.

Even with my antique (donated by a friend) TV hooked to an HD-STB the
picture is sharper & cleaner than DVD. That and the price of
programming
isn't bad (free).

Don't worry, HD will get better in the UK, once HD-DVD takes off.

;-)


Well I hope not HDTV uses about 5 times the bandwidth which means
we would be back to 5 or 6 channels on our terrestrial digital TV :O(

And this would be a bad thing?

Yes full of soaps.


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On Thu, 07 Apr 2005 19:03:03 +0100, Ad
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Adrian wrote:


I don't know why people don't just killfile the illiterate luddite. ;-)

Oh **** off you ****ing ****

Ah, le mot juste.

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Donald McTrevor wrote:
"Drewdawg" wrote in message
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JPG wrote:
Saw a demo in Comet yesterday. It was filmed material on a 50" DLP
rearpro set (Panasonic I think).

I was somewhat underwhelmed - it had a grainy appearance and a poor
off-centre response due to the rearpro screen and looked no better
than the projector/screen system we have at work in the conference
room. Surely a better demo would be straight HD video on a good
quality HD Plasma or LCD?

JPG

Sounds like a combination of poor setup and grainy source material.
I've seen HD displays at Wal-Mart and a proper setup with a good
source can blow you away.

Even with my antique (donated by a friend) TV hooked to an HD-STB the
picture is sharper & cleaner than DVD. That and the price of
programming isn't bad (free).

Don't worry, HD will get better in the UK, once HD-DVD takes off.

;-)


Well I hope not HDTV uses about 5 times the bandwidth which means
we would be back to 5 or 6 channels on our terrestrial digital TV :O(

I would be more than happy with 5 or 6 channels on our terrestrial
digital TV if they were all Hi-Def, though I expect you could have a
dozen or more once analogue is switched off.
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