RE: Big Screens & HD Content

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you fancy a drive down to Winchester then I can show you here with a
live
comparison between the Freeview PVRs and MCE...

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Andy Laurence
> Sent: 13 March 2006 07:50
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] Big Screens & HD Content
>
> 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
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