Does anyone care Sky Sports News is going HD?

[Whitterz]

Yes but there has to be a cut off point with 3D. I can harldy see Eastenders Omnibus 3D on a sunday afternoon catching on with 80 year old women, sitting there with thier knitting?

 

[REDLAND]

It doesn't handle movement very well at all. If you ever get the opportunity to see something at a much higher frame rate (in HD) you'd agree.

Ive got a Sky HD+ box, what would you suggest I brought to watch broadcast TV on that's better than this??

I have a Samsung LE40M86 tv set up with these settings

Samsung LE40M86BD Settings

 

[Easy 10]

I see no framerate issues.
Football and golf are excellent barometers for HD - the picture is so good I am often almost moved to tears.

That said (and slightly off-topic) the blu-ray of Avatar, running at 30mbps+, is probably the most stunning spectacle I have so far seen on my tellybox.

 

[clapham_gull]

Ive got a Sky HD+ box, what would you suggest I brought to watch broadcast TV on that's better than this??

I have a Samsung LE40M86 tv set up with these settings

Samsung LE40M86BD Settings

I was talking about HD generally. Not a particularly set. They've concentrated on getting more pixels into the picture rather than drastically increasing the frames per second.

There is a school of thought that says they may have made a mistake, but it depends on the type of programme.

There is no coincidence is that fact that all the nice promos they play on the tellys in the shop are all very static shots.

The modern HD TVs employ some sort of blurring technology to deal with the fact that whilst the resolution is 21st century the frames per second is still stuck in the century before.

Problem is that the quality is only as good as the best you have seen and I've seen better.

Having said that, I saw a state of the art 3D TV that doesn't require glasses and didn't impress me that much. You could move to one side and see slightly behind a car...

.. great.

 

[Notters]

HD isn't actually that great (unless you have a tv over 40"), I'm surprised how many of you have been duped. The standard signal quality, particularly on itv, has just been getting worse and worse. If you get a normal picture of high quality on a decent 32" tv it won't look any different to HD unless you're pressed up against the screen.

 

[Easy 10]

HD isn't actually that great (unless you have a tv over 40"), I'm surprised how many of you have been duped. The standard signal quality, particularly on itv, has just been getting worse and worse. If you get a normal picture of high quality on a decent 32" tv it won't look any different to HD unless you're pressed up against the screen.

Flick between Sky Sports SD and Sky Sports HD and you will see an immediate difference. Cricket and golf in particular, but also football especially when you get the stadium shots.

ITV SD is particularly appalling now, I'd agree, which is why ITV HD is pretty much essential now if you want to watch Champions League football and not Legoland Windsor.

 

[clapham_gull]

There is always ITV West country which for some reason broadcasts at a higher bitrate that all the other regional channels.

 

[beorhthelm]

HD has its place, but for most TV its hype created to get you to buy a new TV. news, see a talking head, is certainly not somewhere that HD makes a blind bit of difference. unless seeing side by side comparions, i doubt most people would notice or care.

consider old TV series, where you could clearly see when they were on location and when in the studio buy the grainy quality of the picture. did you care? did it make the drama less gripping, or the jokes not work? do you dislike old B&W films like the Ladykillers or Brighton Rock because they are B&W? where you unable to follow the FA cup in 1983, 1993, 2003 or whenever because of the picture quality?

emperor's new clothes.

 

[Brian Potter]

Gotta say I am not particulary bothered by HD/3D. I do not want a stonking great 50inch "benefits telly" taking up my entire front room, as I do not spend my every waking moment sitting watching TV. Therefore a standard digital signal through my sky+ box is perfectly adequate for me.