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As has always been the case with SD, the larger the screen, the lower the picture qua;ity

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In Reply to: RE: 480i TV channels blow via LCD-LED TV. posted by Duster on June 28, 2013 at 17:40:01

You've got about 300k pixels at 480i. Spread em out over a widescreen that's 46" diagonal or above and ouch. That's probably an oversimplified (and a good chance, technically wrong) explanation but that's how I understand it. Thankfully, we have very few SD channels with ATT U-Verse. Unfortunately, one, IFC, has several shows we follow.

I guess the best comparison would be a crappily recorded cassette played over a bombox vs the same cassette played over a $20k system with a top of the line Nakamichi used as a transport.
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RE: As has always been the case with SD, the larger the screen, the lower the picture qua;ity - Jack G 11:46:58 06/30/13 (2)
480 can look decent on my 60" set. Channels just don't bother putting any effort into them. I have quite a few DVDs that look surpassingly good for not being HD. The DVDs of the show "Medium" come to mind. The show was broadcast in HD, so I never understood why it didn't make it to BD. That said, I don't really miss the extra resolution.
Jack
- DVDs aren't an issue upconverted on my OPPO either.But upconverted SD television picture? - Road Warrior 20:42:36 06/30/13 (1)
  puhleeeeezzzze (upconverted on a 65" Panasonic plazma)
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  - That's why I said... - Jack G 05:05:02 07/01/13 (0)
    That channels/networks don't put any effort into the quality of their 480. If they did, it would look much better. In the case of some of the subchannels, they are so starved of bandwidth that there is no way for them to look good.
    jack
    
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RE: As has always been the case with SD, the larger the screen, the lower the picture qua;ity - mrdavis842 21:25:56 06/29/13 (0)
480i/480p will not look as good as HD but all 480i/480p outputs are upconverted to the native resolution of the flat panel tv (e.g. 720p, 1080i, 1080p).

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