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In Reply to: Re: What is the business case for releasing hi-res music on Blu-Ray or HD-DVD? posted by stvnharr on October 23, 2005 at 20:09:21:
This is why I didn't go HDTV as I am unwilling to pay high cable bills, I do not have cable at all. I even went so far as to get a upsampling DVD player with built-in HDTV Tuner on which the picture looks perfect for about 3 - 4 minutes then it degrades into a bunch of little boxes and then reforms itself. I was told this is because of poor reception and tried several powered antennas with no success.The HDTVs I tried was a Westinghouse 27" LCD and a LG 24" LCD. And 3 DVD players, the last upsampling to 1080 using the best HDMI cable from Monster and in every combination all my DVDs had visible pixels.
I ended up getting a NSTC flat screen tube 25" Sanyo TV and a Toshiba VCR using the 3 cable component video output and the picture is beautiful, with warm rich skin tones and extremely sharp and NO pixels at all with my DVDs. I sent $400.00 (NSTC TV and DVD-Audio player) instead of $1,600.00 (HDTV and DVD-Audio player with upsampling video) thus saving $800.00 and with a much superior picture for my DVDs.
Conclusion: If you have a HDTV and you want to collect movies you must get an HD-DVD or Blu-Ray player for an enjoyable picture. And keep your old NSTC TV for watching your regular DVDs. Regular DVDs even upsampled are visually unacceptable on an HDTV.
This has been my journey into HDTV land. I will watch the development of Blu-Ray and HD-DVD but I will not get one as I do not have room for 2 types of TV sets (NSTC and HDTV).
Just my 2 cents,
Teresa
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- Well one problem I see is they may want to upgrade as regular DVD looks poor on an HDTV monitor. - Teresa 00:21:52 10/24/05 (0)
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