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Sept 7, 2010 9:32:04 GMT -5
Post by mummifiedstalin on Sept 7, 2010 9:32:04 GMT -5
So I'm new to the HD thing. But we just got one.
We don't have the HD converter yet, though, so the picture just looks weird. My wife thinks it's an improvement, but there are a lot of digital artifacts when we're just watching regular cable. (By contrast, I popped in a regular DVD of LotR, and HOLY poopie!)
But, by contrast, Return of the Jedi was on regular cable, and my sonwanted to watch. But it was odd: anything that was moving seemed perfectly crisp while the background looked normal or even fuzzy. The only comparison I could make was that it was like watching an old VHS movie where the background was EP but the people up front were SP...at least when moving. So it had this weird effect of making everything seem like it was done on old BBC videotape rather than actually filmed.
I'm assuming this weirdness is going to go away when we finally get the HD signals, right?
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Sept 7, 2010 11:51:26 GMT -5
Post by Mr. Atari on Sept 7, 2010 11:51:26 GMT -5
We had the same experience. We got an HDTV last winter, but didn't get the new box until about a month ago. I had the exact same sensation watching the non-HD signal on the HDTV, especially with movies. Like people were moving at a different rate than the rest of the shot. It reminded me of the old pan-and-scan VHS, where the framing would move in the middle of the shot.
I got used to it pretty quickly though, and just chalked it up to the visual learning curve. However, once DirecTV delivered the HD box, holy crap. Especially for a baseball and golf junkie like me, it was a massive change. I also just got the LOST season 6 Blu-Ray, and it was like I was watching a whole new show (the ending's still the same, though).
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Sept 7, 2010 12:35:14 GMT -5
Post by mummifiedstalin on Sept 7, 2010 12:35:14 GMT -5
Awesome. Thanks. I was afraid I had weird vision or something because my wife just thought it "looked better than before."
And I'm definitely looking forward to the last couple months of baseball in HD.
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Sept 7, 2010 13:09:40 GMT -5
Post by siamesesin on Sept 7, 2010 13:09:40 GMT -5
It doesn't always make things better.
Lesson learned--don't watch Morning Joe on HD.
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Sept 7, 2010 19:17:18 GMT -5
Post by Mod City on Sept 7, 2010 19:17:18 GMT -5
Sounds like the exact same experience I had a few years ago when I upgraded. I still don't have a HD satellite box, but I have HD local channels through my analog cable (weird, but I do) and I have a Blu-Ray player, which I love.
The first time I watched an SD broadcast on my HD television it did look odd, though.
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Sept 7, 2010 19:37:18 GMT -5
Post by mylungswereaching on Sept 7, 2010 19:37:18 GMT -5
Every time I've tried to watch HD TV it's given me a headache. When I look at the TV's in the store, the HD pictures always seem to look fuzzier than the regular TV's. My eyes can't seem to focus properly on them. When I get to watch for a couple of hours at a time, the picture seemed to get fuzzier the longer I watched it. It doesn't seem to matter if it's cable, DVD or Blue Ray DVD.
I wonder if anyone else has had this experience?
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Sept 8, 2010 3:01:53 GMT -5
Post by Mighty Jack on Sept 8, 2010 3:01:53 GMT -5
The station has to be showing whatever your watching in HD to get the full experience, right?
The NFL Network shows their games in HD. I always go to my brothers to watch the games because he has a gigantic 70-something sized screen and we watch it in HD - it's pretty wow! The clairty and definition is amazing. The colors just pop.
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Sept 8, 2010 8:09:46 GMT -5
Post by siamesesin on Sept 8, 2010 8:09:46 GMT -5
Every time I've tried to watch HD TV it's given me a headache. When I look at the TV's in the store, the HD pictures always seem to look fuzzier than the regular TV's. My eyes can't seem to focus properly on them. When I get to watch for a couple of hours at a time, the picture seemed to get fuzzier the longer I watched it. It doesn't seem to matter if it's cable, DVD or Blue Ray DVD. I wonder if anyone else has had this experience? Usually the stores use HD DVDs for the displays, but if they're not, that would explain it. Otherwise you may need to get your eyes looked at, because tv was my first indicator that I needed glasses all those yeas ago.
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Sept 8, 2010 18:21:03 GMT -5
Post by Skyroniter on Sept 8, 2010 18:21:03 GMT -5
Every time I've tried to watch HD TV it's given me a headache. When I look at the TV's in the store, the HD pictures always seem to look fuzzier than the regular TV's. My eyes can't seem to focus properly on them. When I get to watch for a couple of hours at a time, the picture seemed to get fuzzier the longer I watched it. It doesn't seem to matter if it's cable, DVD or Blue Ray DVD. I wonder if anyone else has had this experience? Get a calibration DVD to make sure your picture is correctly set. And go see your eye doctor.
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Sept 8, 2010 19:18:01 GMT -5
Post by mylungswereaching on Sept 8, 2010 19:18:01 GMT -5
Every time I've tried to watch HD TV it's given me a headache. When I look at the TV's in the store, the HD pictures always seem to look fuzzier than the regular TV's. My eyes can't seem to focus properly on them. When I get to watch for a couple of hours at a time, the picture seemed to get fuzzier the longer I watched it. It doesn't seem to matter if it's cable, DVD or Blue Ray DVD. I wonder if anyone else has had this experience? Get a calibration DVD to make sure your picture is correctly set. And go see your eye doctor.
I wear glasses so I see my eye doctor regularly. The same thing happens at stores and at several different friends houses. And the same thing happened when I looked at sony trinitron TV's or computer monitors more than 10 years ago. Most TV's and monitors that claim to be better, look fuzzy to me and they have for the last 20 years or so.
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Sept 8, 2010 19:38:14 GMT -5
Post by mummifiedstalin on Sept 8, 2010 19:38:14 GMT -5
I used to think that HD pictures just looked weird when I first saw them. I realized it was mainly that I was used to my small-at-home-TV, and all the HD things I'd see in the store were like twice as big. Up close, it's gonna look a bit strange and fuzzy, no matter "sharp" it is.
I couldn't get used to the size. And, in the store, you're often standing like 4 or 5 feet at most away from the screens when you're paying attention. But most of us sit around 10 feet away from a screen at home. I kept that in mind when shopping for the one we bought, and it made a big difference.
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Sept 10, 2010 21:29:36 GMT -5
Post by mummifiedstalin on Sept 10, 2010 21:29:36 GMT -5
Just got the HD box hooked up and working. Preeeeeettyyyyyyyy.
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Sept 10, 2010 22:41:26 GMT -5
Post by siamesesin on Sept 10, 2010 22:41:26 GMT -5
Get ready to see rain drops.
But wait until something David Attenborough-y comes on. You won't be able to move.
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Sept 12, 2010 23:17:34 GMT -5
Post by mummifiedstalin on Sept 12, 2010 23:17:34 GMT -5
I have to say...we got a TV that has 120hz for smoothing out motion. And I've turned it off for certain things. It just makes some things look like they were video taped rather than filmed, and, although it's kinda cool to see that super-smooth motion with high action scenes, it makes some less visually dramatic things seem cheaply made.
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