03-01-2008, 01:58 PM
Well, in Germany, a HD-TV is near-worthless for anything but watching HD-DVDs or Blu-Ray discs. There is Pay-TV (duh!) in 720p, and some channels broadcast in 720p (but less than 10% of their program, and about 1% of the movies), but NOT to the cable network , so about 30% of the population are straight out. So you need a digital receiver for satellite TV, and that opens the can of worms that is poor sound quality, pixel-ish and laggy pictures etc.
Most of the TVs and DVD-players are terrible at upscaling, so it's neccessary to have a PC to do that, if you want to watch a regular DVD. (Sometimes even if you want to watch something in 720p!) Motion blur is a real problem, as is contrast and the dreaded black value. Watching the credits of "Miami Vice" made my eyes bleed, because the letters were so blurry.
So for me, it really does not matter, since the technology is not as advanced as the marketing teams want us to believe. I'll give it another four years; maybe it is ready for the masses then AND the discs do not cost more than thrice as much as the old DVDs now.:)
(That's not to say "Serenity" is not impressive in full-HD!:))
Most of the TVs and DVD-players are terrible at upscaling, so it's neccessary to have a PC to do that, if you want to watch a regular DVD. (Sometimes even if you want to watch something in 720p!) Motion blur is a real problem, as is contrast and the dreaded black value. Watching the credits of "Miami Vice" made my eyes bleed, because the letters were so blurry.
So for me, it really does not matter, since the technology is not as advanced as the marketing teams want us to believe. I'll give it another four years; maybe it is ready for the masses then AND the discs do not cost more than thrice as much as the old DVDs now.:)
(That's not to say "Serenity" is not impressive in full-HD!:))
"Ignoring is also a kind of understanding." - Christian Mai