OT: HD TVs

as ready as it will ever be......

I guess you need to ask what the screen size is. It is said that the smaller sizes of tv, cannot really be of much use on true hd content. On the other hand some of the compression used looks awful I am told and on the other hand some of the clever up scaling of sd can look very good. With regard to DIY, why is it that the devices sold to mount them on a wall seem to me at least to be rather flimsy? Brian

The TVs are not all that heavy. I don't know of any that have fallen off the wall so I guess they work well enough.

Really? No point in a hi-res computer screen or phone, then?

I've got a 4k TV in front of me now. It makes a great monitor - at arm's length.

Across the room I doubt I could tell 4k from 1080.

HDR (more colours) is a different matter. As is enough bits on the transmission to take out the compression artefacts.

Andy

I have one here which is a 22" widescreen HD. I can easily see it's not 1080 lines, and not even 720 is very sharp. A slightly smaller computer monitor (19") has 1200 lines and it needs them. Less than that is awful.

And the wall mount is indeed a piece of s*it. Mind you, I'm using it vertically rather than horizontally, so it needs to take the weight of the TV on the joints, so it keeps drooping.

Depends how big it is. For example I'd say a 35" TV showing 1080 lines looks s*it at anything closer than 10 feet.

I've never noticed a lack of colour on a decent HD TV.

Indeed - Eurosport for example is terrible for that. Probably to save money. Or to make you pay for Eurosport HD.

Yes, I have a 43" 4k TV as a monitor, it's excellent, pin-sharp, great for CAD or just having lots of things open. Well worth the money.

(I understand it would work as a telly too, but I've never tried.)

Agreed.

You don't use piratebay then?

See an optometrist.

Why would it need to convert? I've fed it both 1080 lines and 720 lines from the PC and both are out of focus. So clearly the actual panel is neither of those numbers.

It was free.

He'd lost the table stand.

Wouldn't want my 50inch Viero to fall off a wall - it's over 230 lbs with the stand - - -

I've seen one that did. But it was a 30" CRT.

What's it made of, platinum?

Converting to more sensible units.... 16.5 stone. So a heavy man. No, TVs don't weigh that much, you were ripped off.

You're a f****ng idiot, why are you replying to a UK poster in the American group only? Why would you deliberately remove the crosspost? Re-added for the benefit of Brian.

Which is stupid seen as it's a TV and not a monitor. The native resolution should match at least one of the standard TV formats.

What's stupid about using a free TV?

There wasn't one.

Wouldn't that require a lot of processing power? You can do an intelligent resize on one image in photoshop, using a PC's CPU. But it takes more than a 50th of a second. And it would be cheaper to use a decent LCD panel than put a CPU that powerful in.

It can, just not very well.

But my point is it should never have been made, and they shouldn't be allowed to sell anything saying "HD" if it isn't.

Not for free locally.