That ol' HD confusion thing..

On Wed, 22 Jan 2014 16:34:04 -0000
"Brian Gaff" wrote:

Yes indeed. Much the same seems to go for Tesco. A friend told me
that they don't know what an hdmi lead is.
Well the droid on duty didnt.
Brian


He was lucky to find anyone to ask. In our local branch, the electrical
stuff is just there available to look at, but there's never anyone
around to ask anything.

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Davey.

On 22/01/2014 11:13, Davey wrote:
Killing time in Morrison's while the wife was doing the shopping, I
wandered over to the 'electrical section', as we have been talking about
getting a small TV for the guest bedroom, and I thought that I might
see what was on offer.
The two smallest sets they had (of three), with their brand name on
them, were a 22" Full HD set, with 1080p resolution, and a 24" set, HD-Ready, with 720p resolution.
I thought that HD-Ready was supposed to include at least 1080i
resolution ability.
I think I'll go to a proper shop anyway.



lcd televisions are not interlaced - only way to see a 1080i signal at
it's full quality is a 1080p set.

--
Gareth.
That fly.... Is your magic wand.

Brian Gaff wrote:
Yes indeed. Much the same seems to go for Tesco. A friend told me that they
don't know what an hdmi lead is.
Well the droid on duty didnt.

Tell them it's something that has to be supplied free of charge by an EU
directive with any TV set or PVR that's sold :-)


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Mark
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"David" wrote in message
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What annoys me sets labelled HD do not in many cases have Freeview HD TV
stations.
Morrisons in particular with their TV sets and digi boxes are only SD, the
staff think they have the very latest standards.

Tell them you want to watch Al Jazeera in Arabic (using a suitable thick
accent) if you really want to confuse them. (Al Jazeera Arabic is SD but
needs a DVB-T2 tuner to receive it.)

--
Max Demian

"Davey" wrote in message
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Killing time in Morrison's while the wife was doing the shopping, I
wandered over to the 'electrical section', as we have been talking about
getting a small TV for the guest bedroom, and I thought that I might
see what was on offer.
The two smallest sets they had (of three), with their brand name on
them, were a 22" Full HD set, with 1080p resolution, and a 24" set,
HD-Ready, with 720p resolution.
I thought that HD-Ready was supposed to include at least 1080i
resolution ability.
I think I'll go to a proper shop anyway.

--
Davey.

Nah - 720p is all you get in the USA.

Anyway unless you plug in a BD player or similar you won't get any 1080
anything UNLESS you also have either Freeview HD or Freesat HD.

"R. Mark Clayton" wrote in message
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"Davey" wrote in message
...
Killing time in Morrison's while the wife was doing the shopping, I
wandered over to the 'electrical section', as we have been talking about
getting a small TV for the guest bedroom, and I thought that I might
see what was on offer.
The two smallest sets they had (of three), with their brand name on
them, were a 22" Full HD set, with 1080p resolution, and a 24" set,
HD-Ready, with 720p resolution.
I thought that HD-Ready was supposed to include at least 1080i
resolution ability.
I think I'll go to a proper shop anyway.

--
Davey.

Nah - 720p is all you get in the USA.

Anyway unless you plug in a BD player or similar you won't get any 1080
anything UNLESS you also have either Freeview HD or Freesat HD.

... or you could steal the hard disk player from behind the UHD TV in John
Lewis and get 2160p ! (or is it 2160i ?)