First Impressions of HDTV

Panasonic only makes two 26" HD televisions that I could find. One is a LCD
and has 1366x768 resolution. Thats closest to 720p. The other is tube and
all the specs on it I could find say are 900 horizontal lines. Thats not
native 1080i AFAIK.

Reason I ask is I am looking at buying a native 40" 1366x768 LCD set and am
wondering if it will not look as good as a native 1080i set since most
content is 1080i.

Why the could not have just made one or the other the standard I will never
understand.

Matt

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.

G-squared ) wrote in alt.tv.tech.hdtv:
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.

Add in VideoReDo and a dual-layer DVD recorder and you're set to archive.
Remove the commercials and a typical Fox scripted show takes about 4GB per
original hour. You can put one show on a SL DVD or two on a DL. You can
play back from the DVD-ROM drive with no problems (HD requires at most 20Mbps,
which is just a 2x drive).

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Jeff Rife | "I feel the need...the need for
| expeditious velocity"
|
| -- Brain

On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 12:58:18 -0600, "Matt" wrote:

Panasonic only makes two 26" HD televisions that I could find. One is a LCD
and has 1366x768 resolution. Thats closest to 720p. The other is tube and
all the specs on it I could find say are 900 horizontal lines. Thats not
native 1080i AFAIK.

The CRT will probably not be capable of resolving the 1920 horisontal
pixels that the 1920x1080i signal is capable of. What I understand, it
is not often there even in the source material.

But maybe you are confusing the number of lines the TV can display,
wich is 1080 per two half frames, with a specification of how high the
horizontal resolution is (number of black/white bars reduced to a
certain contrast ratio.
That is a relavant specification in particular for a CRT, with an
"analogue" resolution limit in the horizontal direction.
/Jan

Jeff Rife wrote:
G-squared ) wrote in alt.tv.tech.hdtv:
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.

Add in VideoReDo and a dual-layer DVD recorder and you're set to archive.
Remove the commercials and a typical Fox scripted show takes about 4GB per
original hour. You can put one show on a SL DVD or two on a DL. You can
play back from the DVD-ROM drive with no problems (HD requires at most 20Mbps,
which is just a 2x drive).

--
Jeff Rife | "I feel the need...the need for
| expeditious velocity"
|
| -- Brain

Hey thanks, Jeff. My DVR computer already has a DL DVD drive so I only
need the software? Cool.

GG

Larry Bud wrote:

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.


Well, I'm happy with it since I'm usually home during prime time

But, I'm replying to Mr. Zoidberg about his comment about "getting HD
content on EVERY channel 24/7 in a few months". That is just wishful
thinking at this point in time.

- Sports (baseball and hockey mostly) look un-frigging-believable.

How is it you're watching baseball but you haven't seen a football game yet?

ef

EF in FLA wrote:
- Sports (baseball and hockey mostly) look un-frigging-believable.

How is it you're watching baseball but you haven't seen a football game yet?

ef

HDTV Preview channel. They showed baseball clips but no football.
Showed hockey clips too. I've seen entire basketball games in HD but
was very unimpressed.

It's the CT-26WX15.

HDTVnovice wrote:
Larry Bud wrote:

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.


Well, I'm happy with it since I'm usually home during prime time

But, I'm replying to Mr. Zoidberg about his comment about "getting HD
content on EVERY channel 24/7 in a few months". That is just wishful
thinking at this point in time.

Well SOME people are working on more HD.

http://broadcastengineering.com/news.../bth/20060123/

Enjoy
GG

Greg The Winner Zoidberg wrote:
EF in FLA wrote:

- Sports (baseball and hockey mostly) look un-frigging-believable.

How is it you're watching baseball but you haven't seen a football game yet?

ef


HDTV Preview channel. They showed baseball clips but no football.
Showed hockey clips too. I've seen entire basketball games in HD but
was very unimpressed.


InHD and InHD2 both have shown basketball games b4 and they're very
impressive.

I have noticed that sports in HD in any of the big 4 networks (ABC, CBS,
NBC, FOX) appear to be subpar (picture-wise) compared to the ones I've
seen in InHD and InHD2.