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480i TV channels blow via LCD-LED TV.

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My beloved 10 year old Sony WEGA Trinitron flat screen recently went on the fritz, so I opted to submit to the world of modern HDTV rather than be a Luddite and try to repair an obsolete CRT television. What a disappointment. While 1080i HDTV is truly more enjoyable, SD TV channels look wretched when viewed via an LCD-LED television. Might a substantially more pricey plasma TV present more enjoyable 480i program material? TIA

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As has always been the case with SD, the larger the screen, the lower the picture qua;ity - Road Warrior 15:39:06 06/29/13 (4)
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
      
      Edits: 07/01/13
- 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).
RE: 480i TV channels blow on pretty much any HDTV - Jack G 08:58:45 06/29/13 (0)
Networks really don't care about picture quality on 480i channels-especially some of the sub-channels. I've seen some that look like they were made from a cell phone. Sadly, the better your TV is (with a good source), the worse these channels will look.
Jack
RE: 480i TV channels blow via LCD-LED TV. - oldmkvi 08:11:17 06/29/13 (0)
I saw a LOT of HD TVs when I was shopping.
Panasonic Vierra Plasma was the ONLY choice for me!
Everything else looked harsh and etched, while Plasma is rich, smooth, liquid in comparison.
On Directv, you can change the 480i to 480p.
Their HD Package has great pic, I use the Analog outs from the Sat Box for a modest 2ch system for the TV room, and No hum, as was reported by someone else about the Directv Box.

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