Attn: Hi Def lovers
 

Now I have proof it is not my imagination. Today I did a 4 TV install with three standards and one Hi Def. As it happened, myself and the customer were able to stand at a point where we could see both the Hi Def and one of the standards at the same time. The Hi Def was hooked to a big screen Mitsubishi and the standard to a 27" Sony. I told him about you clowns worshipping the Hi Def and asked for his opinion. He agreed the standard was every bit as good as the Hi Def. But he said it did improve the picture on the Mitsubishi big screen by about 10% over the Dish Notwork he had on it before I arrived.

Were you tuned to a hi-def channel?

Compare a hi-def HDTV setup next to a standard HDTV setup (with no HD tuner) and you'll see the difference.

:shrug:

A chic once told me I looked better than Tom Cruise...

DT

Yep. HBO channel 509. I think it improves the quality of a big screen but not a small screen if you use the s video hookup on the small screen. Also, how much a customer notices a difference depends on what he had before. If he was on an off air antenna or a small town cable system he will really notice a big difference. If he is already on Directv, not much.

It's simple math, Skip.

1920x1080 > 640x480

Just watch an HD channel and then switch to an SD channel...the difference is huge.

Skip,

HD signals can not be transmitted over an S-Video cable. Therefore, there should not be a discernable difference on the smaller screen television.

Most small screens aren't set up to take advantage of such a hi-resolution signal.

I know I wouldn't want a Hi-Def signal if I didn't have an HD-ready widescreen TV.

Read it again. The small screen standard unit was using s video. The HD doesn't have jacks for either s video or coax cable. Thanks for playing though, n00b.

Here's an excellent comparison using Madden 2006:

SD

http://www.hdbeat.com/images/2005/12/madden_sd.jpg

HD

http://www.hdbeat.com/images/2005/12/madden_hd.jpg

Yet another comparison, using the TV show "Lost"

Lost in SD

Lost in HD

How old was the other guy? Did he have his glasses on? Did you have your glasses on?

As a science teacher, I think that you could only do this test with 2 TV's that were the same make and model with the same hook ups. I can definitely tell the difference with DVD's on my HDTV over DTV with S video. Is it worth the price difference yet? No.

I think Skip, and his customer base, are a minority. Not really worth arguing about it anymore.

I can tell you that when I went to an electronics store recently, they has two indetical televisions set up side by side. Both of them were big screen. Both were on the same channel, playing the exact same thing. The Hi-Def picture blew the standard picture right the hell out of the water. No comparison whatsoever.
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