Yup there is plenty of coal on the boiler.
Its working OK just dissapointed in the improvement.
Cause it may be time for me M.O.T at Specsavers.
Don't forget the outdoor toilet when you are in need, or even the basin under the bed
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From the lack of reply to the pertinent question, I take it you don't have an HD TV. As such you'll see bugger all difference.
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you need to read the posts.
"Its working OK just dissapointed in the improvement."
A genius does not forget to tick all the boxes.
No you muppet you havent answered the question. You have an HD BOX but do you have an HD TV as well?
Or are you saying that a box is a TV?
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Assuming you have a HD TV... lol
There are a few things possibly going on here.
First of all your HD TV will probably have done a very good job of up-scaling the Std Def signal to HD on your screen. Very much like the digital zoom in a still camera, except you get away with more imperfections with moving pictures.
Second is the quality of the signal. The HD signal is compressed to get it to you, the level of compression will dictate final the quality of your HD picture.
Third , there is HD & then there is HD ..
There are currently four different flavours: "HD ready", "HD TV", "HD ready 1080p", "HD TV 1080p". The difference between STD def and HD Ready is clearly noticeable but not so great.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD_ready
If you connect a Pro / semi pro video camera to a HD TV 1080p set, that would be 'true' HD & the results are incredible, every detail.
Just don't try this at home without adequate makeup Earl.
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Hi Earl
You are a wise chap so I presume you done the basics and used an HDMI cable? (one friend had a scart cable connected to his HD box and nice LCD TV and wondered why it looked like Cr4p.
As well as HD cameras, borrow or buy a Blu-ray player and you would tell the difference.(holy grail of good HD is high bitrate and less compression)
Also, for some reason(my inlaws and father) always turn the colour, contrast and picture processing on full blast so it smears the picture like vasaline on a Rembrant....Must be an age thing turn them down and turn off picture processing stuff, your HD picture will love you for it.
Also been ask whats the point of watching old films in HD, surely they are too old to be filmed in HD? Well old fashioned film stock far exceeds the resolution of 1080p Digital stuff..anyway I digress.
You are a wise chap so I presume you done the basics and used an HDMI cable? (one friend had a scart cable connected to his HD box and nice LCD TV and wondered why it looked like Cr4p.
As well as HD cameras, borrow or buy a Blu-ray player and you would tell the difference.(holy grail of good HD is high bitrate and less compression)
Also, for some reason(my inlaws and father) always turn the colour, contrast and picture processing on full blast so it smears the picture like vasaline on a Rembrant....Must be an age thing
turn them down and turn off picture processing stuff, your HD picture will love you for it.Also been ask whats the point of watching old films in HD, surely they are too old to be filmed in HD? Well old fashioned film stock far exceeds the resolution of 1080p Digital stuff..anyway I digress.
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There are a number of things that can effect how well you see a HD image
1. The channel broadcasting maybe broadcasting in HD but they maybe using so much data compression it makes it pointless (there are one or two nature channels that do this). The least compressed channels seem to be channels owned by BBC, Sky and Channel 4.
2. Ensure everything is switched to HD (your receiver box and your TV). This is why the demo's in most stores are rubbish, they use a SD signal throughout their store so you end up comparing a SD tv with a HD tv showing a SD image.
3. You will notice HD come in to its own if you watch a Blu-Ray disc through it. There is no compression to downgrade the inmage again.
1. The channel broadcasting maybe broadcasting in HD but they maybe using so much data compression it makes it pointless (there are one or two nature channels that do this). The least compressed channels seem to be channels owned by BBC, Sky and Channel 4.
2. Ensure everything is switched to HD (your receiver box and your TV). This is why the demo's in most stores are rubbish, they use a SD signal throughout their store so you end up comparing a SD tv with a HD tv showing a SD image.
3. You will notice HD come in to its own if you watch a Blu-Ray disc through it. There is no compression to downgrade the inmage again.
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