[BNM] [OT] Big TV recommendations, and is 1080 worth it?

[Jay Caines-Gooby]

On Fri, Apr 4, 2008 at 5:48 PM, Jonathan Hirsch <jon at hirschworks.com> wrote:

>  On which subject, while HD does look good, normal TV is definitely
>  not as good as through a CRT, IMHO. Noticeable artifacts, especially
>  on fast-moving footage (which is odd, since it copes fine with the
>  games consoles). I suspect that's just a trait of LCDs though

Yep, because LCDs show more detail than an analogue scanning CRT.

Standard broadcast TV (ie. non HD) is a pretty crappy resolution
(720x576) or by the time you view it, effectively 720x480. Also the
additional compression process (MPEG-2 or MPEG-4) used by your digital
provider (Sky, Virgin, Freeview) adds all those blocky compression
artifacts. The analogue interlaced scanning process used by CRTs to
draw the frames smears the detail and gives you an ok picture. LCDs
give you better definition so you see all this cack more clearly :D


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