RE: Big Screens & HD Content

["Andy Laurence" <andy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

From: Phil Harris [mailto:phil@xxxxxxx]
> > Interesting.  I think I'll take my lappy over to my mum's
> > house with a Freeview recording to see how it looks.
> > Fortunately, I can copy this directly from my Toppy to my
> > lappy.  Now to free up some disk space....
>
> Interested to hear what you think when you try it ... It's so
blindingly
> obvious here and I've show several people who also have been able to
see the
> difference. Off the Freeview PVRs you get obvious artefacting whereas
on MCE
> there's almost none - of course the downside is that the MCE picture
> therefore looks "soft" in comparison. (Whereas the Freeview
PVRs look - to
> me anyway - artificially oversharpened.)

I had a go last night.  It wasn't a definitive test, as I just used Windows
Media Player and an MPEG conversion of a stream I took from the Toppy.  It
was probably a poor test, as it looked just as bad, but for different
reasons.  It didn't look as good on the lappy screen either, so I suspect
I'll have to try it again when I have more time to fiddle.  What I really
need to do is prepare a box that will output the screen's native
resolution, and play some known quantity video files from there.  I need to
build something like that anyway, as I think my mum wants something that'll
play HD, and something that will show her photos in full glory.  We did
have a quick play around with some HD samples, and some photos.  It's a
brilliant screen when the source is high quality!  I'll post again when I
have a definitive answer.

Cheers,
Andy