Picture-in-picture. Do you want it?

On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 19:10:21 +0000, SoCalCommie wrote:

The only thing I'm going to 'tuck' is my foot in your ass!

That's awfully brave talk coming from an anonymous person. Not!

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I have PIP on my 37" Westy 1080p and one of it's nice features is the nearly
unlimited combination of inputs that can be used with the PIP / POP / SxS
features. But like most users I rarely use it. The one time I found it
really usefull was comparing an original DVD (via a standard DVD player -
component) with a 'backup' ;-) copy (via HTPC - DVI), in 'side-by-side'
(SxS) format.

SoCalCommie

"Wes Newell is a tinkerbell." - SCC

"StevenA" wrote in message
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"NadCixelsyd" wrote:

To me, PIP is a very desirable feature. Am I in the minority? I'm
finding that only about 40% of the HD sets have it. When I bought my
first HD set last summer, even fewer had it. Is it because most
people don't care? I'm estimating that another tuner would add $30-50
to the cost. I'm willing to pay it. Are you?

I'd be willing to pay an extra $200 and have them add 3 extra tuners:
One for the channel-up, one for channel-down, and one for PIP.
Because only changed pixels are transmitted, unchanged pixels are not
updated all that often. For this reason, the tuner may take upwards
of two seconds to assemble a complete picture and change the channel.
If the TV had 3 or four pictures already assembled and ready to
display, changing channels would be instantaneous.

OK, here's a channel-surfer's dream: Four tuners, each displaying one
quarter of the screen on a 50" plasma. When a program interest's you,
make that channel full screen. My God, you could watch four football
games at the same time. I wouldn't, but you could.

I have a Samsung 46" HDTV with PIP, but it's of very limited use. With
Samsung
sets PIP only uses the set's built in ATSC tuner for the second signal.
There
is no way to get it to use any other external signal source for the second
picture. Also, PIP only works if the main input is via the component,
PC,
S-video or AV inputs. If the main input is via HDMI or over the air
(digital or
analog), PIP is not available.

One of my cousins has an older 60" Sony. He puts whatever ballgame he's
watching on one side of the screen, and his gf watches what she wants to
with the sound on the other side. Works for them - they're together in the
same room, can chat and yet be happily watching something they're each
interested in.

nospam wrote:
One of my cousins has an older 60" Sony. He puts whatever ballgame
he's watching on one side of the screen, and his gf watches what she
wants to with the sound on the other side. Works for them - they're
together in the same room, can chat and yet be happily watching
something they're each interested in.

His is bigger than mine.

On 3/10/2007 3:01 PM, StevenA wrote:
.. . .

I have a Samsung 46" HDTV with PIP, but it's of very limited use. With Samsung
sets PIP only uses the set's built in ATSC tuner for the second signal. There
is no way to get it to use any other external signal source for the second
picture. Also, PIP only works if the main input is via the component, PC,
S-video or AV inputs. If the main input is via HDMI or over the air (digital or
analog), PIP is not available.

PIP works on my Samsung 5073 plasma TV where I have an HDMI feed going
from a DVR to the TV and a direct cable feed going to the QAM tuner.

Wes Newell wrote:

On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 02:15:57 +0000, wrote:

Please do not kill file Wes - he is way to much fun,,,

This from the stupid sob that thinks OTA HD is going away. BTW, one of our
stations just switched all local news to HD.:-)

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which will be on the pay sat and cable HD channels after 2009,,,

On Mar 12, 2:52 pm, common_ wrote:
Wes Newell wrote:
On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 02:15:57 +0000, wrote:

Please do not kill file Wes - he is way to much fun,,,

This from the stupid sob that thinks OTA HD is going away. BTW, one of our
stations just switched all local news to HD.:-)

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which will be on the pay sat and cable HD channels after 2009,,,

I still think you're wrong on this. The hundreds of millions invested
in OTA would make no sense. If you're just going to abandon it, why
bother at all? It will be interesting to see what really happens in
2009.

GG