Your right I dont have a 100" tv and doubt i would ever buy one. I am happy watching tv on a normal sized tv and have no desire to spend money on a larger one.
I LOVE HIGH DEF!!!!!!
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Your right I dont have a 100" tv and doubt i would ever buy one. I am happy watching tv on a normal sized tv and have no desire to spend money on a larger one.
With HD, you can sit closer to the screen than with SD of the same size. I sit about 12' from my 100" projector screen in a very dark, dungeonish basement, but sometimes move in closer to my gaming chair to see more detail. Very nice to be able to have the TV nearly fill your field of view with great clarity. It's the next best thing to being there. Yes, I'm an HD snob who doesn't like watching too much on SD anymore. It's got to be a very compelling content to make it be worth my watching in SD.
For 100" it would be 12.5 feet. You want 1.5 x the diagonal of the screen for perfect viewing enjoyment.
I have a 60" TV in a 20 x 25 room, it is perfect sized, and SD looks like complete crap on it. HD is necessary for any big tv and especially necessary for Sports.
I have a 40" CRT that is also HD, but I mostly watch SD content on it, it does a pretty good job with SD, so on that tv, HD is not necessary, it is just nice.
Just did a bit of reading and I can clarify what's happening with the onstar thing now.
It's completely unrelated to the terrestrial TV signal change. As of February, cell phone companies will no longer be required to offer analog cell phone service, and the major ones are shutting their analog side off. On-Star apparently uses the analog cell phone system still, so since the analog cell phone system is going away, all the on-star equipped vehicles need to be retrofitted to use the new digital cell phone network.
It will be interesting to see how cell coverage changes in rural parts of Iowa. I know there are some areas where I could never get a digital signal, but I could get an analog one up in north central Iowa.
There are some untruths in what I said (poor reading comp on my part) but I did state "service will go away as it is" which is true, I never said the service was going away. I found a related article but not the one I originally read. By the way I usually would not respond but I want to build up credits for a big bet.
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I purchased a 32" SD flat sceen a few years back. watching an NFL network replay at the moment the picture is fine, but the quality was very grainy on the games yesterday.
I dont know if watching a pre-taped event makes a difference or not, but the NFL replay looks crystal clear compared to what i saw yesterday.
Ive also noticed that difference in picture that different sports networks give you. IIRC fox last night looked great but some of the cbs telecasts left something to be desired. I plan to squirrel away some money the next few months to replace my 32" with a 32 or larger HD.
I dont know if watching a pre-taped event makes a difference or not, but the NFL replay looks crystal clear compared to what i saw yesterday.
Ive also noticed that difference in picture that different sports networks give you. IIRC fox last night looked great but some of the cbs telecasts left something to be desired. I plan to squirrel away some money the next few months to replace my 32" with a 32 or larger HD.
Is the source standard over the air, Dish, Cable, DirecTV, HD?
All of those things make a difference. Local channels over satellite tend to be compressed significantly in SD. Standard channels tend to give you a better picture, since they are given more bandwidth.
I felt the same way. Last summer I sent DTV an e-mail and told them that. 2 days later I get a call from them offering me the HD-DVR for $19.95. I snapped it up. I had to agree to 2 more years of service, but living in the middle of nowhere Texas, it will be at least 2 years before cable or DSL comes my way.
