First Impressions of HDTV

In article ,
HDTVnovice wrote:

It'll also probably take forever to be able to record HDTV programs on a
DVD recorder! Ugh...

But there are alternatives to DVD recording. Check out "EyeTV" for
the Mac, for example.

It's the CT-26WX15.

http://www.panasonic.ca/English/audi...tau/specs2.asp

It appears to simply state 900 horizontal lines of resolution but nothing on
vertical lines. So its not native 1080i or 720p. I am sure it displays
both though. Being 480 goes into 900 quite easilly it likely displays DVD's
quite nicely.

Matt

Agreed



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Greg The Winner Zoidberg wrote:
EF in FLA wrote:

- Sports (baseball and hockey mostly) look un-frigging-believable.

How is it you're watching baseball but you haven't seen a football game
yet?

ef


HDTV Preview channel. They showed baseball clips but no football.
Showed hockey clips too. I've seen entire basketball games in HD but
was very unimpressed.


InHD and InHD2 both have shown basketball games b4 and they're very
impressive.

I have noticed that sports in HD in any of the big 4 networks (ABC, CBS,
NBC, FOX) appear to be subpar (picture-wise) compared to the ones I've
seen in InHD and InHD2.

Matt wrote:
It's the CT-26WX15.

http://www.panasonic.ca/English/audi...tau/specs2.asp

It appears to simply state 900 horizontal lines of resolution but nothing on
vertical lines. So its not native 1080i or 720p. I am sure it displays
both though. Being 480 goes into 900 quite easilly it likely displays DVD's
quite nicely.

You have confused horizontal resolution with scan lines. At 900 lines as
claimed the CRT should be able to display 1600 pixels on each scan line.

Matthew
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"Greg The Winner Zoidberg" wrote in message
oups.com...
- I was a little undewhelmed at first, mainly because my expectations
were so high. But over the last few days, as I've seen more HDTV
content, I'm now very, very impressed. My only regret is that I
probably should have gone for a bigger TV.

and his eyes were opened.

george1234 ) wrote in alt.tv.tech.hdtv:
Well, duh! DVD recorders can only handle SD, not HD. You'll never be
able to record HD on them.

Not entirely true. I record HD with my myhd-130 OTA PCI card. I can
save the transport stream to dvd as a data file. I can then play back
the dvd on the computer dvd file

Thionk data files, not dvd video formats

A DVD recorder can't handle this. A computer DVD-R/RW drive can, but
those aren't DVD recorders.

Some of us have been archiving transport streams to DVD-ROM for a couple
of years, but we don't call them "DVD recorders".

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