Confuse to buy TV

[rbinck]

Originally Posted by xsavoie

Not exactly the info on the specific models I asked for,but thanks just the same.By the way,it seems that I have never seen a good TV station picture from any LCD or Plasma TV sets displayed in the stores,but when a DVD movie is shown,it looks great.As you probably have guessed it by now,I own neither an LCD or Plasma TV yet.Forgive my ignorance,but is this normal.Are TV signals just not up to par yet with the HD part of these new TV'S,or are the old regular TV'S superior to the plasma and LCD TV'S in that aspect.Just wondering.Did I miss something.

I think what you are seeing is mainly a difference in size. Anytime you blow up a 640x480 SD picture to the size of most HDTV sets, you are going to see artifacts. If you want more info on this see: Poor SD On HDTVs

Also there is another phenomenon that is in your head. When a SD picture is displayed on a HDTV the difference in pixels must be "made up" by the video scaler. Different HDTVs will have various degrees of accuracy here. The fact is your brain is much better at "filling in" the missing detail than most video processors.

[henrykemp1]

Originally Posted by xsavoie

Not exactly the info on the specific models I asked for,but thanks just the same.By the way,it seems that I have never seen a good TV station picture from any LCD or Plasma TV sets displayed in the stores,but when a DVD movie is shown,it looks great.As you probably have guessed it by now,I own neither an LCD or Plasma TV yet.Forgive my ignorance,but is this normal.Are TV signals just not up to par yet with the HD part of these new TV'S,or are the old regular TV'S superior to the plasma and LCD TV'S in that aspect.Just wondering.Did I miss something.

You has ask nice question (Nothing for ignorance) Sometime our TV resolution doesn't set. We have to set the picture quality according to our need. We should use the next highest input resolution. Generally any good plasma TV should has 720p resolution.

Thanks

[henrykemp1]

Originally Posted by xsavoie

Not exactly the info on the specific models I asked for,but thanks just the same.By the way,it seems that I have never seen a good TV station picture from any LCD or Plasma TV sets displayed in the stores,but when a DVD movie is shown,it looks great.As you probably have guessed it by now,I own neither an LCD or Plasma TV yet.Forgive my ignorance,but is this normal.Are TV signals just not up to par yet with the HD part of these new TV'S,or are the old regular TV'S superior to the plasma and LCD TV'S in that aspect.Just wondering.Did I miss something.

Yes you have a nice question( Nothing for ignorance). Some time our TV resolution is not set properly. We should use highest input resolution. Generally a good plasma TV has at least 720p resolution.

[xsavoie]

Thanks boys,these answers sure filled a void in my limited knowledge about HD TV'S.So what you are saying is that the new HD TV'S are ahead of the low quality signals transmited by the present TV stations.My guess would be that when the now present analogue signals will turn to digital signals,and especially on the HD channels,then the picture should be much better.Will the picture quality then be at least somewhat close to the DVD quality image,or will there still be a limited improvement due to still compressed signals transmitted.Of course,I'm talking signals transmitted by either cable or satellite.Never mind the terrestrial antenna signals for now.

[rbinck]

Originally Posted by xsavoie

Thanks boys,these answers sure filled a void in my limited knowledge about HD TV'S.So what you are saying is that the new HD TV'S are ahead of the low quality signals transmited by the present TV stations.My guess would be that when the now present analogue signals will turn to digital signals,and especially on the HD channels,then the picture should be much better.Will the picture quality then be at least somewhat close to the DVD quality image,or will there still be a limited improvement due to still compressed signals transmitted.Of course,I'm talking signals transmitted by either cable or satellite.Never mind the terrestrial antenna signals for now.

From those sources you will not see any difference. Satellite and cable providers re-encode their signals to what you have now and the cut-off will not change that at all. If you want near DVD quality video OTA is how to get it, or DVDs of course.

[henrykemp1]

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