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How can I put this clearly? I watched an HD filmed programme on Saturday evening on my non-HD CRT TV without the aid of an HD decoder, the picture was very nice, clear, sharp & very colourful. Can someone convincingly explain why I need to buy a new TV to watch HD?
A normal TV does about 600 lines horizontal where as a 1080 HD TV does 1080 lines... You;re talking about twice the definition... Not really an issue if you;re watching it on a 20" but if you go upto 30"-40"+ then the difference between a normal signal and a HD signal is really noticable
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Re: Freeview-HD to launch in 2009
CRTs are best for "normal" telly, end of. The flatscreens can't compare, and I half-wonder whether they deliberately put a bad SD scaler in them to convince people it's worth switching to HD. I had a great 32" flatscreen that whilst connected to Freeview was damn near perfect, connected to Xbox360 looked even better!
I've just bought a new model Sony LCD 40w4500 and with the picture calibrated its far better than any CRT i've seen on freeview and SD virgin media, with the exception of a few very low bitrate channels which look crap, although you get used to this very quickly. Hopefully it'll look far better upscaled with a V+.
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