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To: brian1501 who wrote (142969)	2/27/2002 4:45:51 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574679

I wonder what equipment you have, but the movie you were watching must've been upconverted standard definition tv. A real HD broadcast is night and day above standard...even digital cable and DSS (both of which are way overcompressed). It's too bad the olympics aren't still on, but watching the Hockey matches in HD was like you were in the stands. Watching the regular version was like watching TV. The source makes a big difference. The Superbowl this year was shot in widescreen 480p (basically like a DVD). The one last year was shot in true 1080i. The difference is astounding. Brian, did you have to overcome all the roadblocks discussed in the article? The author makes it look like its a major hassle and costly. ted

To: brian1501 who wrote (142969)	2/28/2002 10:17:29 PM
From: hmaly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574679

Brian1501 Re...I wonder what equipment you have, but the movie you were watching must've been upconverted standard definition tv. A real HD broadcast is night and day above standard...even digital cable and DSS (both of which are way overcompressed). <<<<<<<<< I have a Toshiba TX55X71 Theaterwide HD TV with a Toshiba DST 3000 receiver. I live in the country; so we don't get cable. I got the Direct TV. system with a high density setup. I assume you are unfamiliar with Direct TV.; but one of their 9 HBO channels is broadcast in high density digital all of the time, so all of their movies on that channel would be broadcast in the 1080i format. The others are in regular digital. What I am saying is that when switching between the regular digital HBO broadcast and the HD one, a unsuspecting viewer wouldn't see much of a difference. The color is good on both. True you can see better definition, but the color is still excellent. I just switched from my old analog satellite system, and the improvement going from analog to digital was 95% of the improvement. Going the last 5% is where the big bucks are, and in my estimation, isn't worth it right now, as only 3 or 4 channels of my 105 channels on direct tv are HD. If you get a regular digital Tv, for $1700 versus $2800 for my size HD, Direct tv supplies a regular settop digital receiver for free vs $800 for a high density settop box, and one can have a lot of cash invested for the amount of time one watches a HD broadcast. So if you ask me, right now Tim should consider a digital TV, and then converting to HD when more channels are available and prices lower, and the products will probably be better.