Re: OT: TV converter boxes

Jan Panteltje wrote:
On a sunny day (Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:53:31 -0700) it happened Joerg
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There is a recommendation from EBU (European Broadcasting Union) against interlacing:
http://www.ebu.ch/en/technical/trev/trev_301-editorial.html
So when you say 1050, 1050 @60 fps non interlaced I hope ;-)
Anything displayed on a non-CRT, such as an LCD, will lose a lot of definition
if the source was interlaced.

It was 1080 interlaced and the picture quality was absolutely stunning.

Watch horizontal motion, see if the sets de-interlacer can keep up.


I does.


So yeah, those commissions can talk all day long. We've already got 1080 lines on terrestrial TV. Do you?

We will perhaps not even get HD on terrestrial, and who cares.


Well, nearly all the sports fans out here do care. Two things matter: Who's got the biggest honking truck and who's got the biggest honking flat screen TV :-)


FYI a well know very popular German station recently decided to stop
HD transmissions on sat too (in German):
http://www.heise.de/newsticker/suche/ergebnis?rm=result;q=prosieben;url=/newsticker/meldung/103498/;words=ProSieben
The motivation is interesting too.


HDTV in Europe has a habit of fizzling. Happened before with the analog version. It's a very different market when compared to America.


I have similar ideas, I like 720p, but HD in itself sure does not have a place in every livingroom
thse days.
Most older people would never be able to see the full detail, in a normal livng room size
with normal size set, wearing normal glasses.
It is a bit like 96 kHz audio and golden speaker cables I guess.

But hey, I will not deny you your experience.

I understand you have a bit of US chauvinism now you are in the US, but hey it sys a crappy
system with multipath reflections, not-available huge boxes, just 5 years behind.



Err, behind? Quote from your post: "... bislang sind nur circa 150.000 TV-Haushalte in der Lage, Sat.1 und ProSieben in HD-Qualität zu empfangen ..." which meeans that so far only 150000 households are able to receive and display HDTV in the German-speaking parts of Europe. Now that is completely different here. Pretty much everybody owns at least one HDTV set. Well, maybe in reality the credit card company owns it.

And no chauvinism here. I'd also have preferred your DVB-T here because of multipath problems and a somewhat better orchestrated transition. But at least we got really good HDTV. When it works ...

Thing is, a transition to DVB-T would have most likely resulted in egg in the face of politicians. People would have pelted them because they had to buy all new stuff and then there wouldn't be much of a benefit to the people. American don't like that, at least not if they didn't have a chance to vote on it. Our ATSC is different in that it does offer the benefit of much higher resolution. Ok, that may mostly matter to the guys watching sports but that happens to be the audience with the biggest wad of cash buring in their pocket.

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