First Impressions of HDTV

- I was a little undewhelmed at first, mainly because my expectations
were so high. But over the last few days, as I've seen more HDTV
content, I'm now very, very impressed. My only regret is that I
probably should have gone for a bigger TV.

- Sports (baseball and hockey mostly) look un-frigging-believable. If
you watch 20 baseball games a year (assuming those games are broadcast
in HD) buying an HDTV is worth the money. If you follow hockey at all,
buying an HDTV is worth the money. It looks *that* good. I haven't seen
any football yet but I imagine it will look great too. Can't wait for
the Superbowl.

- Letterman, Leno, and Conan all look pretty good, but nothing that
blew me away like sports content did.

- Concerts look fantastic.

- Nature programs look just as un-frigging-believable as sports do.

- There sure is a hell of a lot of SD content on "HDTV channels".\

- Overall, I would say most HD content is about twice as good as DVD
quality. For whatever reason, sports and nature shows look about 100
times as good. Now it's just a matter of getting HD content on every
channel 24/7. Should only be a few months until that happens, right?

Greg The Winner Zoidberg wrote:


- Overall, I would say most HD content is about twice as good as DVD
quality. For whatever reason, sports and nature shows look about 100
times as good. Now it's just a matter of getting HD content on every
channel 24/7. Should only be a few months until that happens, right?

A few months? LOL. Keep reading the newsgroup. You will be totally
disappointed once you find out how long it's gonna take to get a lot of
HD broadcasts!

It'll also probably take forever to be able to record HDTV programs on a
DVD recorder! Ugh...

Elmo P. Shagnasty wrote:
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HDTVnovice wrote:


It'll also probably take forever to be able to record HDTV programs on a
DVD recorder! Ugh...


nah. The changing technology is no doubt why ReplayTV switched to a
software model and partnered with Hauppage.

http://www.digitalnetworksna.com/Abo...ess.asp?ID=613

In a few months you'll be able to build whatever you want, using the
tuners you want, and stream it to your TV in the appropriate fashion.


Hmmm...I hope that includes HDTV programs. And even if HDTV programs
are included, I wonder if you can record it on pure 1080i or have to
settle for something much less, like 480P.

And I wonder how all those copyright protection technologies are
implemented with that.

I can almost smell lawsuits from left to right, especially from the
Bluray and HD-DVD people

Greg The Winner Zoidberg wrote:
- I was a little undewhelmed at first, mainly because my expectations
were so high. But over the last few days, as I've seen more HDTV
content, I'm now very, very impressed. My only regret is that I
probably should have gone for a bigger TV.

- Sports (baseball and hockey mostly) look un-frigging-believable. If
you watch 20 baseball games a year (assuming those games are broadcast
in HD) buying an HDTV is worth the money. If you follow hockey at all,
buying an HDTV is worth the money. It looks *that* good. I haven't seen
any football yet but I imagine it will look great too. Can't wait for
the Superbowl.

Make sure you buy a setup disk, such as Avia, to properly set the
brightness/contrast/color/sharpness on your set. It will get even
better.

HDTVnovice wrote:
Greg The Winner Zoidberg wrote:


- Overall, I would say most HD content is about twice as good as DVD
quality. For whatever reason, sports and nature shows look about 100
times as good. Now it's just a matter of getting HD content on every
channel 24/7. Should only be a few months until that happens, right?

A few months? LOL. Keep reading the newsgroup. You will be totally
disappointed once you find out how long it's gonna take to get a lot of
HD broadcasts!

Nearly every primt time show on network TV is in High Def. I consider
that a "lot" of programming.

HDTVnovice wrote:
Greg The Winner Zoidberg wrote:


- Overall, I would say most HD content is about twice as good as DVD
quality. For whatever reason, sports and nature shows look about 100
times as good. Now it's just a matter of getting HD content on every
channel 24/7. Should only be a few months until that happens, right?

A few months? LOL. Keep reading the newsgroup. You will be totally
disappointed once you find out how long it's gonna take to get a lot of
HD broadcasts!

It'll also probably take forever to be able to record HDTV programs on a
DVD recorder! Ugh...

OK, it's not a DVD but last night I watched 90 minutes of '24' that I
recorded last week in HD. Check out Wes Newell's posts about MythTV as
DVR. Personally, I'm using an HDTV Wonder with the ATI software. It
does NOT lend itself well to archiving but it does do a good job of
timeshifting.

GG

The first time I was blown away was when I saw a horned beetle crawling on
sand and you could see every hair in the beetle and every grain of sand like
it was inches away.

"Greg The Winner Zoidberg" wrote in message
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- I was a little undewhelmed at first, mainly because my expectations
were so high. But over the last few days, as I've seen more HDTV
content, I'm now very, very impressed. My only regret is that I
probably should have gone for a bigger TV.

- Sports (baseball and hockey mostly) look un-frigging-believable. If
you watch 20 baseball games a year (assuming those games are broadcast
in HD) buying an HDTV is worth the money. If you follow hockey at all,
buying an HDTV is worth the money. It looks *that* good. I haven't seen
any football yet but I imagine it will look great too. Can't wait for
the Superbowl.

- Letterman, Leno, and Conan all look pretty good, but nothing that
blew me away like sports content did.

- Concerts look fantastic.

- Nature programs look just as un-frigging-believable as sports do.

- There sure is a hell of a lot of SD content on "HDTV channels".\

- Overall, I would say most HD content is about twice as good as DVD
quality. For whatever reason, sports and nature shows look about 100
times as good. Now it's just a matter of getting HD content on every
channel 24/7. Should only be a few months until that happens, right?

What do you have for a TV? Size and is it native 720p or 1080i?

Matt

- I was a little undewhelmed at first, mainly because my expectations
were so high. But over the last few days, as I've seen more HDTV
content, I'm now very, very impressed. My only regret is that I
probably should have gone for a bigger TV.

- Sports (baseball and hockey mostly) look un-frigging-believable. If
you watch 20 baseball games a year (assuming those games are broadcast
in HD) buying an HDTV is worth the money. If you follow hockey at all,
buying an HDTV is worth the money. It looks *that* good. I haven't seen
any football yet but I imagine it will look great too. Can't wait for
the Superbowl.

- Letterman, Leno, and Conan all look pretty good, but nothing that
blew me away like sports content did.

- Concerts look fantastic.

- Nature programs look just as un-frigging-believable as sports do.

- There sure is a hell of a lot of SD content on "HDTV channels".\

- Overall, I would say most HD content is about twice as good as DVD
quality. For whatever reason, sports and nature shows look about 100
times as good. Now it's just a matter of getting HD content on every
channel 24/7. Should only be a few months until that happens, right?

Matt wrote:
What do you have for a TV? Size and is it native 720p or 1080i?

Matt

Panasonic 26" 1080i. It's for a bedroom, so the size is pretty good for
now. But I can definitely tell that with HD, bigger would be better.

HDTVnovice ) wrote in alt.tv.tech.hdtv:
It'll also probably take forever to be able to record HDTV programs on a
DVD recorder!

Well, duh! DVD recorders can only handle SD, not HD. You'll never be
able to record HD on them.

As for any future HD-DVD recorder...who cares how long it takes before they
are available? Even at 50GB/disc, it would only be able to hold 6 hours.
I'd rather record to a big, cheap hard drive, edit out commercials, then
save to a disc (if I want to preserve it).

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