[TechAssist] Re: low res on a hi res
- From: Kevin <kevintv@xxxxxxx>
- To: techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 14:26:11 -0700
All you need is a set top digital cable/off air receiver which can
output both HDTV for HDTV's and SDTV for non-HDTV's. And the SDTV
(widescreen) has a much better picture than digital cable. In Canada
Shaw Cable has already dropped the price of a HDTV receiver down to
about $300--or you can rent one. I am guessing the price will drop even
further the closer we get to hDtv day.
Kevin Wilks
Kevin's TV & Video Repair
Penticton BC Canada
kevintv@xxxxxxx
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[mailto:techassist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Electric Medic
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 1:25 PM
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Subject: [TechAssist] Re: low res on a hi res
Does anybody think in two years there will only be HDTV? I cannot
believe
all 300 million Americans will have HDTV sets in all rooms in house in
two
years. That would be a logistic and cost nightmare for all the old and
rural
customers that use these stations advertisers. Where are they going to
put
all the useless analog TV's. You could stack them to Mars. It would cut
off
so many customers. Plus two years is almost in a blink of a eye, how
could
this happen? I believe that all stations and cable would have to start
now
advertising and telling all customers to junk their sets and buy a HDTV
because there is a cutover date. There would be a real panic in my
opinion
and we would get a lot of customers saying don't fix my TV and millions
of
phone calls from panicked customers. Heck, they call about hooking up a
VCR.
And what about the folks buying $1800 analog sets today, some don't let
you
trade it in for a new HDTV like Mitsubishi does. I'll believe it when I
see
it in two years. 730 days and counting down. Any wagers.
Perry Bower
Electric Medic
"It's Cheaper to Keep Her"
http://www.electricmedic.com
3850 Washington Road Suite 4C
Martinez, Georgia 30907
Phone: 706-8MEDIC4 (863-3424)
Phone: 706-863-3474
Fax: 706-863-2316
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-----Original Message-----
From: techassist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:techassist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Kevin
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 3:37 PM
To: techassist@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [TechAssist] Re: low res on a hi res
First thing: The bigger the picture the more the faults show up.
Sitting further back will make them less noticeable.
Second thing: HD TV's are designed for high definition pictures.
Different brands look better on cable, but still are not very good
compared to a HDTV signal. In 2 years when then is nothing but HDTV (in
the US, 2010 in Canada) all signals will be Hi-Def and their set will
look great on all channels.
Kevin Wilks
Kevin's TV & Video Repair
Penticton BC Canada
kevintv@xxxxxxx
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[mailto:techassist-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mitchell TV
Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 6:25 AM
To: Tech Assist
Subject: [TechAssist] low res on a hi res
Any of you guys running into customers with high dollar plasma, DLP, or
LCD
wide screen sets, hooked up to a standard cable box only? These people
are
complaining of pixelization, fuzzy pictures, etc. when they are watching
a
NTSC picture from the cable box on channel 3. They cant understand why
this
new expensive TV looks worse than their old TV.
Seems the sales staff at Circuit Buy, etc., have, as usual, promised the
moon, and failed to deliver. These customers (mostly elderly) have no
idea
what 480i, 720p,1080i is, they have never heard of up conversion, don't
know
a component video cable from a garden hose, and simply don't understand
why
the TV picture pretty much stinks.
I have even been to a few places where the customer had a HD Sat
Receiver,
outputting 1080i, hooked up with component cables, and the customer is
watching local broadcast NTSC programming, crappy, pixels, and
stretched. HD
programming looked great. Customers question: why does the game on CBS
look
so bad on my new HDTV? duh, IT'S NOT IN HD!! (no, cant say that,
customer
service specialist you know.)
What kind of stuff are you guys using , or saying to help the old guy
down
the street understand the HD experience.
Greg Mitchell
Mitchell TV
408 S. 11th Street
Niles, MI 49120
269-683-0868
269-683-1501 Fax
mitchelltv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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