Re: OT: TV converter boxes

Jan Panteltje wrote:
On a sunny day (Fri, 13 Jun 2008 11:43:43 -0700) it happened Joerg
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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 :-)


So, what did you say the pixels of _your_ 'HD' TV were? 1920x1080?
I thought you had something less?


It's less on this set but there is still a marked difference in image quality between 720p and 1080i transmissions.


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.

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.

Because those LCD TV sets with 1920x1080 are so rare.


You don't necessarily need a 1080-line set although the big ones offer that much. If the set has 800 lines and a well designed interpolator it'll look great.


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.

Not 1920x1080 I think.

And now you are exagerating anyways, most people have the boxes so they can use
their old analog 1958 CRTs ;-)


Then you don't really know Americans :-)


The voucher they need, as they cannot even afford a new CRT.
Especially now gas is so expensive.


You'd be surprised. When I was at Best Buy to pick up the converter boxes there were quite a few people in the demo area of the store where they offer those monster flatscreen TVs such as this one:
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8824329&type=product&id=1207352350193

And people are buying.

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