Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
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I have a 40 inch Sammy and there is a massive difference between SD and HD.
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I have a SA V+ and the is little difference between HD and SD on my 50in LG Plasma due to the excellent upscaling on the SA V+.
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06-03-2011, 15:52
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
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I have a SA V+ and the is little difference between HD and SD on my 50in LG Plasma due to the excellent upscaling on the SA V+.
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Must be a poor set the difference is still big, even though they upscale well.
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06-03-2011, 15:58
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
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Must be a poor set the difference is still big, even though they upscale well.
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Directly below my TV and it has a brilliant picture and the TV is only a year old.
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06-03-2011, 16:20
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
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Directly below my TV and it has a brilliant picture and the TV is only a year old.
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Well mine is a 6 series 40 inch Sammy and HD is amazing , in fact once you've watched HD on it anything else doesn't compare.
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06-03-2011, 16:44
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
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What services do you subscribe to? You have said in the past you don't seem that bothered about a fair few HD channels which is fair enough, I never used to be that bothered either. It was only when we got a 46" set that we finally realised how good it is.
I would politely say anyone who thinks HD is less than one of the biggest growth areas in TV is a bit behind the times of a lot of the opinion of Pay TV customers really, but each to their own.
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And there's another very important aspect of HD TV, which is, 5.1 sound.
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06-03-2011, 16:55
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
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Well mine is a 6 series 40 inch Sammy and HD is amazing , in fact once you've watched HD on it anything else doesn't compare.
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If someone says there is no difference between HD & SD in picture quality, they are in one of two camps
Could not care less
Problem with their eyesight
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06-03-2011, 16:57
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
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If someone says there is no difference between HD & SD in picture quality, they are in one of two camps
Could not care less
Problem with their eyesight
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Excellent point , just watch Sky sports in HD and then switch to SD if you see no difference get to specsavers.
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06-03-2011, 17:23
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
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And there's another very important aspect of HD TV, which is, 5.1 sound.
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Yes, totally agree.. 5.1 is great with HD 
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06-03-2011, 17:28
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
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Excellent point , just watch Sky sports in HD and then switch to SD if you see no difference get to specsavers.
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Ok - lets not get too personal here. my observation is that I personally dont think HD is all that great on some channels.
Watch True Blood of FX HD and I dont see any benefit. However, I am currently watching Discovery HD and the picture is superb.
All horses for courses. Some will say its the dogs dangly bits - others like me say its good, but its not something I would purposly watch until it becomes the norm.
And yes, I did shed a tear when I dumped vinyl for CD
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06-03-2011, 17:31
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
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Ok - lets not get too personal here. my observation is that I personally dont think HD is all that great on some channels.
Watch True Blood of FX HD and I dont see any benefit. However, I am currently watching Discovery HD and the picture is superb.
All horses for courses. Some will say its the dogs dangly bits - others like me say its good, but its not something I would purposly watch until it becomes the norm.
And yes, I did shed a tear when I dumped vinyl for CD
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Discovery HD's picture is awesome
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06-03-2011, 17:38
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
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Discovery HD's picture is awesome |
Yes that and NAT GEO HD 
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06-03-2011, 17:56
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
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And yes, I did shed a tear when I dumped vinyl for CD
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I didn't shed a tear for CD either 
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06-03-2011, 19:19
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
what date is that game channel coming
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06-03-2011, 19:26
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
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what date is that game channel coming
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Who knows? Your guess is as good as ours 
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06-03-2011, 19:41
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Re: Coming Soon to Virgin TV (2011) Vol. I.
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Originally Posted by MutleyF
Ok - lets not get too personal here. my observation is that I personally dont think HD is all that great on some channels.
Watch True Blood of FX HD and I dont see any benefit. However, I am currently watching Discovery HD and the picture is superb.
All horses for courses. Some will say its the dogs dangly bits - others like me say its good, but its not something I would purposly watch until it becomes the norm.
And yes, I did shed a tear when I dumped vinyl for CD
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I agree with a lot of that.
When we only had a 32" set the difference was minimal, but on a 46" set it is sometimes a huge difference but the quality differs on different channels and indeed different content shown on the same channel. And of course the audio can be like night and day too.
BBC HD is usually very good but EastEnders seems only marginally better in HD to me.
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