Just got an HD telly - also just discovered HD is a bloke thing!

Apart from the fact that this NG is nearly exclusively male, the
females in my family (I am in a minority of 1) seem to fail to
appreciate the joys of high-definition television.

I will happily put on the far superior picture of Channel Four HD (we
have Virgin Media), but the Mrs and daughters then complain about the
lack of subtitles on HD and ask to turn to the SD equivalent. They
seem to fail to notice the difference between HD and SD, they say
things such as "why do we need HD, we already have had to go
digital!".

Bizarrely, they point out what they deem to be the problems with HD.
"You can see all the wrinkles on people's faces. You can see
individual clumps of grass on HDTV football matches - that's
horrible!".

I get the impression that the content of the programmes is more
important to them - maybe that's a good thing. They will happily
watch something resembling a YouTube video as long as it's one of
those bloody property programmes or anything with Gok Wan in it.

MR

On 24/03/2010 13:30, MartinR wrote:

I get the impression that the content of the programmes is more
important to them

Yup. And the color of the car.

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Adrian C

On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 06:30:17 -0700 (PDT), MartinR
wrote:

They will happily
watch something resembling a YouTube video as long as it's one of
those bloody property programmes or anything with Gok Wan in it.

If your TV picture resembles a Youtube video then something is far
wrong .:-)

....snip...

I sometimes remember happily watching programmes on a 12inch B&W portable.
You become far more discerning as to what is a good program, and what is
simply eye-candy.

I imagine that for the moment, HD is heavily in the eye-candy phase until it
becomes "just normal" and people stop trying to exploit it and get back to
making decent programmes.

Same can be said for Real-D at the cinema where many films just throw things
"out of the screen" because they can whilst few make full use of the
technology. I felt genuinely uncomfortable watching some of the "running
along tree trunks over huge canyons" shots in Avatar - now that impressed
me.

Paul DS.

wrote in message
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On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 06:30:17 -0700 (PDT), MartinR
wrote:

They will happily
watch something resembling a YouTube video as long as it's one of
those bloody property programmes or anything with Gok Wan in it.

If your TV picture resembles a Youtube video then something is far
wrong .:-)


Read his post again he did not say what you have read into it.
David

On 24 Mar, 14:24, wrote:
On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 06:30:17 -0700 (PDT), MartinR

wrote:
They will happily
watch something resembling a YouTube video as long as it's one of
those bloody property programmes or anything with Gok Wan in it.

If your TV picture resembles a Youtube video then something is far
wrong .:-)

A YouTube video on my TV looks like a YouTube video, a HD picture
looks superb.

MR

On 24 Mar, 13:36, Adrian C wrote:
On 24/03/2010 13:30, MartinR wrote:



I get the impression that the content of the programmes is more
important to them

Yup. And the color of the car.

--
Adrian C

Too true. The number of times my daughters whinge about the lack of
something or a fault on their pink fluffy mobile phones.


MR

On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 14:28:33 -0000, "David"
wrote:



wrote in message
.. .
On Wed, 24 Mar 2010 06:30:17 -0700 (PDT), MartinR
wrote:

They will happily
watch something resembling a YouTube video as long as it's one of
those bloody property programmes or anything with Gok Wan in it.

If your TV picture resembles a Youtube video then something is far
wrong .:-)


Read his post again he did not say what you have read into it.
David

I just have and now I know even less what he meant but anyway .Who
cares .

On 24/03/2010 15:00, MartinR wrote:
On 24 Mar, 13:36, Adrian wrote:
On 24/03/2010 13:30, MartinR wrote:



I get the impression that the content of the programmes is more
important to them

Yup. And the color of the car.

Too true. The number of times my daughters whinge about the lack of
something or a fault on their pink fluffy mobile phones.

For most practical things, the attention span of most females with
regard to technical things is a lot shorter than men. Unfortunately
nothing new there.

However, as cooking is a life or death thing, I'm thankful at least that
skill has been mastered.

Saves me washing up ;-)

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Adrian C

In article
,
MartinR wrote:
Bizarrely, they point out what they deem to be the problems with HD.
"You can see all the wrinkles on people's faces. You can see
individual clumps of grass on HDTV football matches - that's
horrible!".

Set for a career as Head of Production, then.

--
*If vegetable oil comes from vegetables, where does baby oil come from? *

Dave Plowman London SW
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