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UPC HD Picture Quality

  • 25-09-2009 4:14pm
    #1
    Dermot224
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 190 ✭✭


    Can we get some reports from users on UPC hd picture quality.I'm in Glasnevin area and ther is very little difference between HD picture and upscaled Sd picture through HD box.I've been flicking between live football on Eurosport & Eurosport HD. I'm viewing from about 5 feet from Sony Bravia 32 inch LCD with HDMI Connection set to 720p


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  • #2
    who_me
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,669 ✭✭✭who_me


    IMO, 32 is too small to see much difference between SD and HD. You will see some, but it's much more apparent on 37/40 inch screens.

    I have a 37", and the quality with UPC varies greatly (in Cork city). Obviously, you need the HD channel to be showing something with a lot of detail, a soft-focus scene is the same in SD or HD! :)

    I've noticed any dark areas are very poor, with obvious colour banding and striping - even in HD channels.

    Conversely, in Eurosport HD, it's often whites which are poorly displayed. It's hard to tell if it's UPC, or the original broadcast at fault.


  • #3
    Rosser
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 591 ✭✭✭Rosser


    I have HD (on a 37'' Phillips) and it's cracking, Eurosport is the least impressive, even the non HD channels seem much better


  • #4
    Mossy Monk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 28,128 ✭✭✭✭Mossy Monk


    Rosser wrote: »
    I have HD (on a 37'' Phillips) and it's cracking, Eurosport is the least impressive, even the non HD channels seem much better

    Eurosport hardly show anything in HD.


  • #5
    Ranicand
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,960 ✭✭✭Ranicand


    Yes a lot of the stuff on Eurosport and ESPN is just upscaled.

    Nat Geo Wild that is HD all the way.


  • #6
    hightower1
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,207 ✭✭✭hightower1


    yeah he's right a lot is upscaled, a lot of nat geo is filmed in hd and looks amazing. Things like the Nat Geo's own adverts for the channel obviously are filmed in hd to showcase it and there is a brilliant picture.

    I still get a kick out of watching discovery HD and turning over to normal discover channel and seeing the same ad in SD. Things like mega builders preview were run on both channels and showed the difference perfectly.


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  • #7
    WizZard
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,762 ✭✭✭WizZard


    UPC HD on my 50" Pioneer Kuro is pretty spectacular.
    IMHO anything smaller than 40" it's going to be difficult to see the difference between upscaled SD and (broadcast) HD.


  • #8
    Pat Gleeson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 529 ✭✭✭Pat Gleeson


    WizZard wrote: »
    UPC HD on my 50" Pioneer Kuro is pretty spectacular.
    IMHO anything smaller than 40" it's going to be difficult to see the difference between upscaled SD and (broadcast) HD.

    I agree, and the Pioneer would make anything look good - even UPC - a spectacluar TV. I have a 43" Pioneer plasma and Sky HD - brilliant.

    who_me: It's true that a lot of content on ESPN HD and Eurosport is upscaled, but on Sky, the upscaled stuff is far superior to the equivalent SD channel, Eurosport in particular. It's not the channel at fault IMO.


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