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Old 18-11-2013, 14:44   #94
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re: Coming soon to Virgin TV (2013) Vol. 6.

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Originally Posted by steveh View Post
Providing it's a decent bitrate. Perhaps worth noting that on this side of the Atlantic, the jump from 576 -> 1080 is not so attractive as 480 -> 1080 was for the Americans, especially those brought up with their analogue TV.
Plus, US channels never went widescreen for their SD broadcasts (there may be one or two exceptions though), so over there widescreen = HD.

Agree on the bitrate, too. While modern TVs and TiVo can upscale a good SD picture quite nicely (CG movies on DVD look lovely on my HDTV, although obviously Blu-ray looks much nicer), a low quality SD signal will just result in a low quality upscaled picture.
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