Hdtv

CatInABox

I've been looking around for HDTVs in ireland, and i know that peats have some, but the whole thing just seems to be a little under documented in ireland. Was wondering if anyone could point me in the right direction if I wanted to hop on this bandwagon now rather than in a years time.

It's just that my dad might be getting a new tv soon, and I'd prefer to get one that I wont have to upgrade in a years time.

Also, does anyone have this set up at the moment? I'm wondering how you have it set up. (i.e Using a box to increase the res of ordinary signals, etc)

By the way, I know that this probably should be in the tv forum, but I dont see all that many technical questions in there, which is why i put it here.

Cheers

SantaHoe

Ah, you should check the Home Entertainment board, guru's they are.
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/forumdisplay.php?f=113

Lump

HDTV!? They're really expensive, and IMHO it'll be at least 20 years till it comes to ireland. It's only getting to be standard on Cable channels in the US, the UK have no plans to broadcast HDTV for at least 10 years.... And TBH I don't think RTE will be before the UK, since Ireland still relies on it's analog network and has no digital freeview service.

Wait a while tbh.... prices will drop massively once it's kicked off in the uk.

John

CatInABox

You know, I saw the "Home entertainment" board, but didn't go into it because the first thing all i could think of for was "Home entertainment" was board games for some reason.

Sky are hoping to start boardcasting next year, even though the european standard hasn't been set. The next consoles will be fully HDTV capable(Dont know about europe though), and i could hook my pc up to it.

Cheers anyway, my mistake.

Gilgamesh

HDTV could be a sweet thing, but as lump said, maybe in 10 years.
not even DVD movies are recorded in a high enough resolution for it.
Blue ray or HD DVD will be required just from going by the sheer storage space required for that res to get the full potential from it.
Sky ould have been my first idea of broadcasting it first but remember this, they are only responsible for transmitting it, like widescreen, it has to be recordeed in that high format. meaning, everybody with non HDTV which run this mode, will have about a tenth of the picture displyed on their screens.
I would go for a high class Widescreen TV at the moment, is cheaper and more reliable at the time

Lump

On another note, the place I work are future proofing alot of the Main line stuff they do. They shoot big drama's etc on HD tapes.

You can use them for pc I guess.... but the tv's are dam expensive. And I wouldn't just sky. They may broadcast HDTV, but it'll be compressed so it'll fit on the satellitte. The bandwidth will be stripped.

John

A O Malley

From http://www.homecinemachoice.com/whatplasma/

Requirements for the label “HD ready”

A display device has to cover the following requirements to be awarded the label "HD ready":

1. Display, display engine - The minimum native resolution of the display (e.g. LCD, PDP) or display engine (e.g. DLP) is 720 physical lines in wide aspect ratio.

2. Video Interfaces
* The display device accepts HD input via: Analogue YPbPr1; and DVI or HDMI

* HD capable inputs accept the following HD video formats: 1280x720 @ 50 and 60Hz progressive ("720p"), and 1920x1080 @ 50 and 60Hz interlaced ("1080i")

· The DVI or HDMI input supports content protection (HDCP)."

The last is very important because Sky High definition, which is due in about 2006, won’t work without DVI or HDMI with HDCP

Gilgamesh

plus the picture isn't the only issue, the Datarate is going to kill most standards for streaming in 1280x1020.
currently TV have a res from something like 320 x 240, DVD bring a max of 360 x 720 (widescreen).
that would mean that every picture woudl have 1.3 million pixels, going maybe at 760 KB per pic, woudl bring 45.6 MB per second transfer requirement.
wow.
compressed maybe half, but then you would get quality loss and that isn't the reason for HDTV in the first place then