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

In article ,
Gary wrote:
remember most people cannot tell the difference between
scart and RF

Those 'most people' must be registered blind. The difference on a menu or
EPG etc is immediately obvious - before you even watch the first picture.

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*Letting a cat out of the bag is easier than putting it back in *

Dave Plowman London SW
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"Gary" wrote in message
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Most people not geeks and nerds look at a TV and if it glows than it is a
success
after nigh on 30 years in TV repair i know what people watch and it isn't
good.


Your right.
I was told a long time ago when the first TV sets came out with 2
loudspeakers that TV now had stereo sound, this was years before stereo
sound was broadcast here.
My brother was sent out to repair a TV sound fault he fixed the sound and
noticed the TV picture colour was wrong, one of the 3 colour guns on the crt
was not connected, he connected it.
On his return to base his manager was jumping up and down, the lady of the
house had given him an ear bending on how the engineer and ruined their TV
picture. My brother returned and disconnected the that colour again and all
was well with the customer.
Regards
David

Gary wrote:
remember most people cannot tell the difference
between scart and RF

Ye gods - the world is doomed.

Is that really true?

BugBear

On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:47:00 -0000, "Max Demian"
wrote:

"Johnny B Good" wrote in message
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The message [email protected]
from "Felicity S." [email protected] contains these words:
Brian Gaff wrote:
[...]

Now pictures of course, should be hi fi, as it were, as they are not
affected by the room, only the electronics they are processed through.
I remember when I was being told about my eyesight, they showed us the
quality of the image most retinas see, its crap. The brain is what
constructs the image, constantly aiming the macular at the bit where
the
action is, as its there where the definition is not bad. The rest is
total rubbish and jiggling about all the time.

True, there are even holes you're programmed not to notice. The
vertebrate
eye is so badly constructed that it's proof against Intelligent Design.

That's a false argument to use against the creationists' theory of
"Intelligent Design". The function of the vertebrate eye is radically
different to that of a camera (movie or still). The retina represents an
outpost of the brain which, after all, has to process the information in
order to achieve the sense we call 'vision'.

Only a deranged Designer would wire up the retina so that the nerve fibres
block the light path.
[...]

If the designers of roving robotic machines wish to endow them with a
sense of vision, they could hardly do better than to emulate the
vertebrate eye and the associated processing algorithms.

Optically a cephalopod eye would be a better bet. Or an insect.

A really savvy
creationist could then use your argument that the eye is a poor camera
as an argument for "Intelligent Design" by a 'Creator' with the
consumate patience to get it 'just right'.

Except He cocked the vertebrate eye up because He was spending all his time
creating millions of different beatle species.

Thought there were only four

Keith

Steve Thackery wrote:

Felicity S. wrote:

If I might be permitted by this newsgroup to make a slightly technical
point, might I suggest that you are not watching anything in SD on your
television, but upscaled SD, so the qualitative difference is less?

I'm no expert, but I imagine it must depend a lot on what is meant by
"upscaling", anyway. For instance, I imagine the SD picture could be
resized, with no other processing, to fill the 1920 x 1080 screen. On
a better telly there might be all sorts of additional processing
(sharpening, etc) to fool the eye into thinking it's looking at a
higher-def picture than it really is.

Our telly does just that; and as Brian mentioned in his post, our eyes
are low-def, with all sorts of additional processing in the brain.


Fliss

--
She said: You campaigned for me? Why? You think all this...
'school spirit' stuff is stupid.
He said: I never said it was stupid, I said it's beneath you.

Col wrote:

Felicity S. wrote:
Brian Gaff wrote:

The thing is though, unless the picture is really awful, if the
program does not demand hd, and you get into it, then nobody I know
notices if its hd or not, no matter what gender they are.

Every TV has a magic button which improves quality. It's the OFF
button.

Turning the radio on has much the same effect.

True, the pictures are just wonderful.


Fliss

--
She said: If it weren't for you I would still be the
Queen of Portugal. And now, what am I?
He said: You are drunk and you are foolish!

keith wrote:
On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:47:00 -0000, "Max Demian"
wrote:
Except He cocked the vertebrate eye up because He was spending all his time
creating millions of different beatle species.

Thought there were only four


Only two now

"An inordinate fondness for beetles" - JBS Haldane.

Andy

"Andy Champ" wrote in message
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"An inordinate fondness for beetles" - JBS Haldane.

Hah! Totally OT, but that quotation reminds me of a dictionary definition I
read for coprophilia which went "An undue interest in faeces." This
immediately made me wonder what a "due" interest in faeces might be!

SteveT

"keith" wrote in message
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On Thu, 25 Mar 2010 10:47:00 -0000, "Max Demian"
wrote:
"Johnny B Good" wrote in message
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[...]

A really savvy
creationist could then use your argument that the eye is a poor camera
as an argument for "Intelligent Design" by a 'Creator' with the
consumate patience to get it 'just right'.

Except He cocked the vertebrate eye up because He was spending all his
time
creating millions of different beatle species.

Thought there were only four

Damn! That was a genuine mistake. I still think 'beetle' looks wrongly
spelt. I wonder why the spellchecker didn't pick it up?

--
Max Demian

"Max Demian" wrote in message
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I wonder why the spellchecker didn't pick it up?

Probably because of the pop group. It also lets through "Slade", "Abba" and
various others which aren't real English words.

SteveT