No no...he said it right and I read it wrong...SD on HDTV sucks. Well...LARGE HDTVs anyway. I won't go as far to say that SD cable on 100" screen is "unwatchable" but it is pretty bad. You can't do much with an already bit starved SD digital cable feed even with a good scaler. Nicely scaled pixellated mess is still pixellated mess blown up to huge proportions.
Vinea
It's all relative though.
I read reviews of some sets that upscale poorly, and the image is noisy, grainy, etc. But on others it is soft, when you are up close, but otherwise, fine.
I've seen a few sets that looked ok.
Remember, we're not expecting high quality, just the same appearance we would get from the same size SD set.
I know that it might be hard to remember, but until just a few years ago, all of the large screen sets were SD. They looked fine from a distance, but not up close. Upscaling SD to the same size should look better. In fact, many installations of older HD front projectors had upscalers that did a fine job of it, but they were, and are, very expensive. But, modern circuitry does a better job for far less money.
That's all I mean.
Poor digital feeds are another matter entirely. Satellite is worst at this. They compress more than cable does, as they have a fixed bandwidth.
Pioneer Elite monitors do a good job up scaling standard definition signals to 720p and 1080p.
Their monitors are really nice. I think is very important to have such capaibility. it will take time to get massive content on native HDTV either 720p or 1080p, Meanwhile we have to deal most of the time with the standard world.
I played standard DVD on my 30" Apple Cinema display and look like crap if you watch it closely. Meanwhile the same on a Pioneer Elite, it's just plain beautiful.
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No no...he said it right and I read it wrong...SD on HDTV sucks. Well...LARGE HDTVs anyway. I won't go as far to say that SD cable on 100" screen is "unwatchable" but it is pretty bad. You can't do much with an already bit starved SD digital cable feed even with a good scaler. Nicely scaled pixellated mess is still pixellated mess blown up to huge proportions.
Vinea
It's all relative though.
I read reviews of some sets that upscale poorly, and the image is noisy, grainy, etc. But on others it is soft, when you are up close, but otherwise, fine.
I've seen a few sets that looked ok.
Remember, we're not expecting high quality, just the same appearance we would get from the same size SD set.
I know that it might be hard to remember, but until just a few years ago, all of the large screen sets were SD. They looked fine from a distance, but not up close. Upscaling SD to the same size should look better. In fact, many installations of older HD front projectors had upscalers that did a fine job of it, but they were, and are, very expensive. But, modern circuitry does a better job for far less money.
That's all I mean.
Poor digital feeds are another matter entirely. Satellite is worst at this. They compress more than cable does, as they have a fixed bandwidth.
Their monitors are really nice. I think is very important to have such capaibility. it will take time to get massive content on native HDTV either 720p or 1080p, Meanwhile we have to deal most of the time with the standard world.
I played standard DVD on my 30" Apple Cinema display and look like crap if you watch it closely. Meanwhile the same on a Pioneer Elite, it's just plain beautiful.
I hope it could be different.