KVR Audio

kevvvvv · Post by **kevvvvv** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 10:20 am

The new 50" High Definition television sets are awesome for their quality.

Phew

The cheapest is £2,500

Anyone else seen them?

Amberience · Post by **Amberience** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 4:23 pm

Like the planet needs yet another overpriced product. Not impressed with humanity at this point.

BONES · Post by **BONES** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 4:27 pm

Can you even receive HD over there?

diverdee · Post by **diverdee** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 4:33 pm

I work for telewest & have seen a demo of it - unbelievable quality.

kevvvvv · Post by **kevvvvv** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 9:39 pm

andrew vernon

Like the planet needs yet another overpriced product. Not impressed with humanity at this point.

Ah ... then you haven't seen it yet.

In 3 years we'll have one

experimental.crow · Post by **experimental.crow** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 9:43 pm

Andrew Vernon wrote:

Like the planet needs yet another overpriced product. Not impressed with humanity at this point.

tsk tsk , andrew ...
i just don't believe your sig ...

ew · Post by ew » Mon Nov 21, 2005 9:45 pm

normal wrote:
Andrew Vernon wrote:

Like the planet needs yet another overpriced product. Not impressed with humanity at this point.
tsk tsk , andrew ...
i just don't believe your sig ...

Neither do I, come to think of it...

ew

mandolarian · Post by **mandolarian** » Mon Nov 21, 2005 10:10 pm

You really haven't lived until you've seen an Infomercial in HD. Mere words cannot describe the life-like, nay, bigger-than-life cheeziness of an HD Informercial. Nor the dubious gig making cheezy soundtrack for HD Informercial...

BONES · Post by **BONES** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 1:15 am

Which format are they going for in old Blighty? We've chosen 1080p so as to take up all the existing bandwidth, thus keeping one Rupert M out of the game. We've had it for 3 or 4 years now and I don't know anyone who can receive it. You don't even see many HD-capable tele-sets in shops.
I read somewhere that you guys were smart and were only going digital, not HD. What happenned?

kevvvvv · Post by **kevvvvv** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 10:59 pm

Bones

You don't even see many HD-capable tele-sets in shops.
I read somewhere that you guys were smart and were only going digital, not HD. What happenned?

50" HD sets are now being sold as HD-ready for when Sky in the UK goes digital-hd (whatever that means) some time next year.

The picture quality I saw was awesome. I'd been told it was good, but nothing prepared me for the sheer clarity in a 50" screen.

It was like a hole in the wall I could fall into

There were 3 models with the cheapest being £2,499.

Mrs Kevvvvvv said "not this year", so maybe next Xmas.

Question for anyone who knows: Will regular non-HD encoded DVDs look better when played back on a HD screen?

mandolarian · Post by **mandolarian** » Tue Nov 22, 2005 11:06 pm

No. Grainy. When I was last in the HD edit suite staring at the $25K Sony HD monitors, anything less than 1080 HD looked ugly. Of course we were editing the HD format infomercial, so ugly is a relative term.

Anyone seen HD yet?