Producer Amy moving to Radio 1 Breakfast

[Serin]

What's the point? I mean, we've only just got digital tv and now they're trying to sell us something else? :bah:

[demonhorse]

If you have a computer with a TFT screen and a TV card, you already have everything you need for HD. PCs have had what is effectively the same thing for years.

[theeveningsaviour]

And I bet hardly 5% of the UK will bother seeing what all the fuss us about... Id like to see it but its not in my pipeline

[Serin]

Is HD TV actually any better than digital tv?

[theeveningsaviour]

Its basically netter pictures... movies/sports are the main focus. I know the BBC is doing Planet Earth in HD

[demonhorse]

Its a different thing altogether really... its more to do with the quality of the screen than the actual picture or signal. Digital is also more to do with the way the signal is received and the type of signal.

I.e you can have a digital TV programme that is broadcast in HD...

[Andy B]

The main difference is that TV pictures haven't really changed since it was first broadcast. Beacuse everyone keeps buying bigger and bigger TV's the picture quality you get on it is not as good. Take a 640x480 pixel image and double the size and it looks worse, the bigger it gets, the worse the quality, same thing with TV's so no they're broadcasting more pixels.

For 5 bonus points can anyone tell me where the term "Pixel" comes from?

There's a mars bar for the winner

[demonhorse]

The main difference is that TV pictures haven't really changed since it was first broadcast. Beacuse everyone keeps buying bigger and bigger TV's the picture quality you get on it is not as good. Take a 640x480 pixel image and double the size and it looks worse, the bigger it gets, the worse the quality, same thing with TV's so no they're broadcasting more pixels.

For 5 bonus points can anyone tell me where the term "Pixel" comes from?

There's a mars bar for the winner

short for PICture ELement :bah:... if you abbreviate picture to PIX

[Eva]

The main difference is that TV pictures haven't really changed since it was first broadcast. Beacuse everyone keeps buying bigger and bigger TV's the picture quality you get on it is not as good. Take a 640x480 pixel image and double the size and it looks worse, the bigger it gets, the worse the quality, same thing with TV's so no they're broadcasting more pixels.

For 5 bonus points can anyone tell me where the term "Pixel" comes from?

There's a mars bar for the winner

Picture+element:biggrin:

[demonhorse]

sorry evil... beat ya toit and i like mars bars

[Eva]

sorry evil... beat ya toit and i like mars bars

:bah:

well....

o.k. You can keep it.

It's Your Birthday today:-p

[all write tree cull]

I don't know what all the fuss is about. I don't think the improvement in quality justifies the huge price you have to pay for a HD TV, not to mention the price of the subscription to the HD channels (which are very few and far between atm). Its just not worth it and I will be sticking to what I've got for some time yet.

[Andy B]

Well done Horsey, shall I mail it to the Nottingham Race track or drop it off at your work when I'm up visiting and getting drunk in a few weeks.

[Lucinda]

I'm not sure about HD TV. A couple of months back I got a lift in my friend's car which saved me a bus fare and his mum was ordering Sky HD on the phone (in car hands free, while driving). They'd just bought a new HD ready TV. But Sky couldn't upgrade their Sky+ to HD until... mid/late August. This was back in May or something. So much for getting HD in time for the World Cup...

I think at the moment it is useless and overrated. I am fine with my digital TV, and my old fashioned terrestrial apart from the BBC which I can't tune properly on terrestrial because there are too many big buildings in the way.