HD...I'm curious

....surely with all the repeats on BBC not all of the BBC HD output is
going to be Planet Earth and Attenborough documentaries. Surely they're
going to have to start broadcasting Dad's Army and a bunch of old Python
stuff at some stage.

Excuse my ignorance (and the time to go a hunting in these groups), but
how is that going to look?
P

"bixx" wrote in message
news
...surely with all the repeats on BBC not all of the BBC HD output is
going to be Planet Earth and Attenborough documentaries. Surely they're
going to have to start broadcasting Dad's Army and a bunch of old Python
stuff at some stage.

Excuse my ignorance (and the time to go a hunting in these groups), but
how is that going to look?
P

You are correct, not all of the content on HD channels will be HD. When SD
material is broadcast on a HD channel I imagine it will look much the same
as it would on a SD channel

On Thu, 25 May 2006 19:09:34 +0100, bixx wrote:

...surely with all the repeats on BBC not all of the BBC HD output is
going to be Planet Earth and Attenborough documentaries. Surely they're
going to have to start broadcasting Dad's Army and a bunch of old Python
stuff at some stage.

What exactly is unclear about the term HD ? Ancient Dad's Army and
Python is barely even D.

Did people say "Surely they're going to have to show some 4:3 movies
eventually" about Sky Premier Widescreen?

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says...

"bixx" wrote in message
news
...surely with all the repeats on BBC not all of the BBC HD output is
going to be Planet Earth and Attenborough documentaries. Surely they're
going to have to start broadcasting Dad's Army and a bunch of old Python
stuff at some stage.

Excuse my ignorance (and the time to go a hunting in these groups), but
how is that going to look?
P

You are correct, not all of the content on HD channels will be HD. When SD
material is broadcast on a HD channel I imagine it will look much the same
as it would on a SD channel

AIUI, SD content (TV, DVD, VCR) looks worse on an HDTV than it does on an
SDTV.
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Dom Robinson wrote:
In article ,
says...

"bixx" wrote in message
news
...surely with all the repeats on BBC not all of the BBC HD output is
going to be Planet Earth and Attenborough documentaries. Surely they're
going to have to start broadcasting Dad's Army and a bunch of old Python
stuff at some stage.

Excuse my ignorance (and the time to go a hunting in these groups), but
how is that going to look?
P

You are correct, not all of the content on HD channels will be HD. When
SD
material is broadcast on a HD channel I imagine it will look much the
same
as it would on a SD channel

AIUI, SD content (TV, DVD, VCR) looks worse on an HDTV than it does on an
SDTV.

This is very dependent on the TV. Some HDTVs are poor at displaying sd
resolutions, but some are very good.

My Sony Bravia 3lcd 50inch does an excellent job of hd (from the xbox360 and
original chipped xbox) and sd from tivo, gamecube and sky etc.

The capacity for a Tivo picture ( a recompressed mpeg2 stream, often from an
initially poor bitrate signal) to look poor on a 50 inch screen is pretty
huge, but no, the picture quality is pretty good.

Gaz

"Zero Tolerance" wrote in message
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On Thu, 25 May 2006 19:09:34 +0100, bixx wrote:

...surely with all the repeats on BBC not all of the BBC HD output is
going to be Planet Earth and Attenborough documentaries. Surely they're
going to have to start broadcasting Dad's Army and a bunch of old Python
stuff at some stage.

What exactly is unclear about the term HD ? Ancient Dad's Army and
Python is barely even D.

Did people say "Surely they're going to have to show some 4:3 movies
eventually" about Sky Premier Widescreen?

As I've mentioned before *Ancient Dads Army and Python* is probably the REAL
reason the TV companies (Especially Sky) are trying to get TV watched again
and of course in Skys case an excuse to raise the subscription prices.
All this to make utter tripe,dogs,dots,coming soon/next banners look
better???

In the Days of Dads Army/Python etc, We got quality programming and ignored
how bad or good the picture was.

These days the broadcasters are probably saying "How can we sell our present
day **** to the public, No person in their right mind wants to watch it?"

I'd expect all this onscreen junk on FTA channels but certainly not
Subscription services.

The only next best thing to do is for these broadcasters to offer gophers
something new that will look just a *little* better.
The only reason HDTV took up quickly in the USA is NTSC crappy pictures and
the way cable/sat boxes connected to their TV's.
I doubt we'll notice much difference as we'll be busy trying to avoid
adverts,dogs and other grafitti.

Who records all this **** full of banners and DOGS??

On Thu, 25 May 2006 19:09:34 +0100, bixx wrote:

...surely with all the repeats on BBC not all of the BBC HD output is
going to be Planet Earth and Attenborough documentaries. Surely they're
going to have to start broadcasting Dad's Army and a bunch of old Python
stuff at some stage.

Excuse my ignorance (and the time to go a hunting in these groups), but
how is that going to look?
P

Great I would imagine. The older the material the more likely it is to have been
recorded on film which easily exceeds HD quality.

--
Nigel Barker
Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur

Nigel Barker wrote:
On Thu, 25 May 2006 19:09:34 +0100, bixx wrote:

...surely with all the repeats on BBC not all of the BBC HD output is
going to be Planet Earth and Attenborough documentaries. Surely they're
going to have to start broadcasting Dad's Army and a bunch of old Python
stuff at some stage.

Excuse my ignorance (and the time to go a hunting in these groups), but
how is that going to look?
P

Great I would imagine. The older the material the more likely it is to have been
recorded on film which easily exceeds HD quality.

I would agree - if stations can go back to the master copies they are
going to look quite good.

On Thu, 25 May 2006 23:15:44 +0100, Dom Robinson
wrote:

AIUI, SD content (TV, DVD, VCR) looks worse on an HDTV than it does on an
SDTV.

Not the case. Some poor installations certainly make that possible but
it's far from a universal truth.

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On Thu, 25 May 2006 21:33:48 GMT, (Zero Tolerance)
wrote:

On Thu, 25 May 2006 19:09:34 +0100, bixx wrote:

...surely with all the repeats on BBC not all of the BBC HD output is
going to be Planet Earth and Attenborough documentaries. Surely they're
going to have to start broadcasting Dad's Army and a bunch of old Python
stuff at some stage.

What exactly is unclear about the term HD ? Ancient Dad's Army and
Python is barely even D.

Did people say "Surely they're going to have to show some 4:3 movies
eventually" about Sky Premier Widescreen?

Movies were originally 4:3 & with picture quality far higher than current HDTV.
Various widescreen formats were introduce to try & 'add value' or
'differentiate' cinema from that upstart TV.

--
Nigel Barker
Live from the sunny Cote d'Azur