[TV] Why don't women do HD

[AmexRuislip]

To be fair we only have a 720p TV - I do have a 1080p monitor and notice the difference there but 720p cannot see much of a difference. I don't really watch much TV personally, if I did maybe we would have a better one

I'm not surprised, by the looks of it you haven't spent that much on tv's

 

[dazzer6666]

Not all channels have an HD version.

So why get used to watching in HD, when you can't get for all channels in HD? Or do men not notice the difference when they have no choice but to watch in SD?

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*Breathe*

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[Wozza]

Does anyone else think that they actually broadcast SD in SLIGHTLY worse definition these days, just to make HD look so much better...or has SD just always been shit ?

I think the bandwidth is being squeezed on some channels. ITV was always shitehouse though.

 

[btnbelle]

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*Breathe*

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I'm ok with SD. Unless I'm watching football or a water based scene, I can't see enough difference to worry.

 

[brakespear]

I'm not surprised, by the looks of it you haven't spent that much on tv's

There are two TVs elsewhere in the house that most of the TV watching in the house is done on, I just keep it on for the background noise, mostly watching Talking Pictures or Sky Sports Mix whilst I watch anime on the PC

 

[beorhthelm]

Does anyone else think that they actually broadcast SD in SLIGHTLY worse definition these days, just to make HD look so much better...or has SD just always been shit ?

its partially down to the larger screen showing the smaller resolution image is upscaled and therefore bluring in the process. though someone told me (or i read, prehaps even here) that ITV and some other channels send a poorer SD signal to reduce bandwidth and squezze extra channels in.

 

[Is it PotG?]

I'm ok with SD. Unless I'm watching football or a water based scene,

Not ALL water based scenes would be better in HD

 

[ferring seagull]

I remember when I first got a HD Sky box, with my super-duper new HDTV. First thing I watched was an evening match between Aston Villa and somebody-or-other, and it was SNOWING. I watched it utterly AGOG, and just kept saying to her "look at the snowflakes...look at the grass...look at the faces in the crowd!!", as she just sat there and rolled her eyes. It was an Ashes year as well. I just had a perma-hard-on, and it wasn't even Babestation.

Does anyone else think that they actually broadcast SD in SLIGHTLY worse definition these days, just to make HD look so much better...or has SD just always been shit ?

I wouldn't be at all surprised !

 

[btnbelle]

Not ALL water based scenes would be better in HD

Granted.....

 

[DavidinSouthampton]

Exactly the opposite in our house. We had HD anyway, which was impressive. We have just bought a new better tele - nothing too ridiculous, but a Samsung 43", I think for about £500. It's stunning.

But it was mrs DiS who instigated it all and did most of the research, and we both love it equally. Both football fans and so the quality there is enormously noticeable.

 

[happypig]

Mrs H always watches SD. I can only think that the effort of pressing three buttons instead on one is too much for her as (on the rare occasion when she has the buttons) if I ask her "stick it on 104 luv" she gives one of those "women's sighs" that convey the same annoyance as if I had asked her to go down to the river and fetch back a bucket of water on her head.

Countdown is a must in HD...

 

[Bigtomfu]

Without a doubt this is a thing. The game changer for me about five years ago was getting the new Virgin HD box in time for Wimbledon and being quite AGOG that the net wasn’t a homogenous piece of black cloth. Unreal detail.

Suddenly made the women’s matches much more palatable too. [emoji102]

Does anyone else think that they actually broadcast SD in SLIGHTLY worse definition these days, just to make HD look so much better...or has SD just always been shit ?

I’ve thought this for a while now, especially Sky Sports. Cricket balls are basically single cuboid pixels in SD now and seem to skip across the green background slower than on a CPC6128 hooked up to an old GRUNDIG 14 incher.

 

[Billy the Fish]

I couldn't give a shit about HD, it doesn't make me enjoy what I'm watching any more than if it was in SD.

 

[happypig]

I couldn't give a shit about HD, it doesn't make me enjoy what I'm watching any more than if it was in SD.

and a Good Evening to you too MADAM

 

[BadFish]

I'm ok with SD. Unless I'm watching football or a water based scene, I can't see enough difference to worry.

If a water based scene comes on the TV do you quickly switch to HD, and then back again?

 

[Berty23]

Just read this thread to the wife. I got in at 9.30 and plonked on the sofa and grabbed the remote. She said "OK I am watching that" so I replied "I know but I am putting on channel 178" and we had a debate about why it bothers me but not her. I said it is her crap eyesight.

 

[dazzer6666]

Mrs H always watches SD. I can only think that the effort of pressing three buttons instead on one is too much for her as (on the rare occasion when she has the buttons) if I ask her "stick it on 104 luv" she gives one of those "women's sighs" that convey the same annoyance as if I had asked her to go down to the river and fetch back a bucket of water on her head.

Countdown is a must in HD...

Why

 

[Two Professors]

With my wife,it's the soundbar she doesn't get the need for.

 

[happypig]

Why

 

[btnbelle]

If a water based scene comes on the TV do you quickly switch to HD, and then back again?

No, I start watching nature programmes in HD to start with. Then I watch other programmes in SD. Its not the end of the world if the news has a water based scene, I do watch that in SD. Do you ever watch SD programmes?