Thread: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
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Old 24-07-2011, 20:27   #561
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. III.
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Originally Posted by spiderplant View Post
No. If the room allows, try viewing your 37" screen from 16 feet away. Even with perfect eyesight, your eyes won't be able to see the individual pixels of SDTV (which are about 1 sq mm). So making the pixels 4 times smaller (HDTV) will make no difference to the detail you can see.

The only difference you may see is fewer encoding artifacts on moving scenes due to the higher bitrate.
So maybe those who can't tell the difference are just sitting at the wrong distance from their screens?
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