HD Sky is it worth it?

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"Mike Henry" wrote in message
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I say "unfortunate" because I don't like this march towards 25fps motion
when we've had far smoother 50fps motion for many years; it is a
backwards step. People with LCD displays are getting desensitised to it
already. I sigh every time I see that someone has "helpfully"
de-interlaced a torrent of a TV broadcast, throwing away this smoothness
in the process.




but any half decent tv will turn the interlaced picture into a 50p image -
not 25p.
my set at least gives the option to choose in the user options - or the
ability to set it to auto.

I thought it might have worth at least a quid... Have you deducted for the
DOGS and ADS they show? ;-)

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"David Lownds" wrote in message
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Hi,

I've recently purchased a new HD TV. I currently have Sky+.

Can anyone give me their opinion on whether its worth upgrading to Sky HD
now or is it best to wait a bit?

Many thanks

Dave


We are seriously thinking of going back to Sky+. On our second box in a
week. The HD picture is very good but not the WOW pic we have seen. The SD
channels are not as good as they used to be unlike one poster.

We recorded War of the Worlds in HD and it took 12% of the HDD. You only
get 160GB of the 300GB for your own use. The other 140GB, is for Sky
Anytime - the rubbish Sky download for you. After seeing the first load of
rubbish, Sky Anytime is now turned off.

Only trouble is, they're now putting most of the new HD movie premieres
on Anytime, rather than the HD movie channels, so if you don't get them
on Anytime, you end up waiting anything up to a couple of months for
them to turn up on the HD movie channels or you have to watch them in
SD.
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Sean Black

Mike Henry wrote:

That's a temporary, and unfortunate, blip. The next generation of
display devices (eg OLED) will be able to display interlaced signals,
taking us back to the super-smoothness of 576i50 instead of being forced
to downgrade it to a jerky 576p25 after deinterlacing as is the case
currently

I hope you're right Mike, but why should OLED panels be any more capable, or
likely, to being run in interlace mode, than LCDs ?


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Mark
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"Mark Carver" wrote in message
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Mike Henry wrote:

That's a temporary, and unfortunate, blip. The next generation of
display devices (eg OLED) will be able to display interlaced signals,
taking us back to the super-smoothness of 576i50 instead of being forced
to downgrade it to a jerky 576p25 after deinterlacing as is the case
currently

I hope you're right Mike, but why should OLED panels be any more capable,
or likely, to being run in interlace mode, than LCDs ?

You have to take note of the fact that many 1080 HD displays only support
1080i. What exactly is not "interlaced" about an LCD display creating the
image via interlaced fields? OK the previous field may not be decaying as
happens with a CRT, but there is nothing to stop you changing the LCD
elements via alternative fields rather than frames.

My Regza only engages it's DCDI deinterlazer if the source is interlaced
"AND" you select it. It doesn't function automatically on the assumption it
must deinterlace because updating alternative fields every 1/50 of second is
impossible for an LCD.