Hdtv

[Cabe]

enever heard of that stuff, just go to the czech rebulbic and get some f**king cheap absinthe, f**king awesome that stuff, the real stuff has moer of the hallucinagen in it and will f**k you the s**t up. Ome of my friends got a bottle of the real stuff from germany, f**king brilliant...!

Cabe, read the PM i sent you please - Kernel Kev

[VAMP]

Uhhhh...are you drinking absynthe now?

[odhranus]

Originally Posted by VAMP

Uhhhh...are you drinking absynthe now?

I think he's permanently on it now, messing his head up, won't be a genious much longer....

[dirtbikr6288]

My Dad just bought a 72" 1080p DLP T.V....this thing is a beast. It makes our old 50" look portable...HAHA.

Boxing is incredible. You can see every pore and the sweat flying off the guys face when he gets clocked. I can't wait to see what 1080p actually looks like (best I've seen so far was 1080i)

Also...is it true that 720p and 1080i are practically the same quality?

[Monkey Business]

WOW 72" is massive.
Love to play my PS3 on there.
Had a 50" but had a problem with the sound so took it back for a 32" lol.

[odhranus]

72"? jeeeeesss!!!! that's one big telly, have you got any console's hooked up to it?

oh and apparently 720p is better than 1080i

[Kernel Kev]

Originally Posted by dirtbikr6288

Also...is it true that 720p and 1080i are practically the same quality?

No 720p is better than 1080i

P = progressive (i think) it uses every line at once

I = inter-woven (something like that) and it uses every other line, whilst the lines in between are "getting ready" for the next image.

So, 720p uses all 720 lines on each image cycle

but, 1080i only uses every other line on each refresh so thats 540 lines.

1080p is the ultimate obviously



Kev

[Cabe]

What Kev said is pretty much bang on. Progressive uses every line to draw the picture.
i.e if we had a TV that was 10p and had a refresh rate of 50Hz then every time it refreshed (50 times a second) it would draw lines 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10 then clear the screen for the next refresh.
If our crappy TV was 10i and had a refresh rate of 50Hz then every time it refreshed it would draw lines 1,3,5,7,9 then clear the screen then draw 2,4,6,8,10 that means it takes two cycles for the entire image to be shown which means roughly 25 times a second and givin that 24fps is roughly where the human eye/brain can notice the difference between the images the picture seems less than clear and slightly blurry.

An easy way to tell if a screen is Interlaced or Progressive is to look at it through a video camera. If you can see a black band, static, or moving, then it is interlaced. What you are seeing is the part of the screen that hasn't been drawn yet since the camera's refresh rate will be different from the screens.

[Kernel Kev]

Good example Cabe, i just checked the camera thing on my tv with my phone.

It has no black lines just the same as what i can see, so is that progressive or is it my camera phone sh*t lol. Its only a CRT thingy, is there such a thing as 540p?



Kev

[Cabe]

PAL video is 768*576

Here is a guide to resolutions.