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Courtesy of Samsung
 
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jasons
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Blimey! and only £500?

Surely it cant be that good can it?
 
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David Dever
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Not as good as the recently-departed Sony models, but decent when calibrated (and SIGNIFICANTLY smaller than the Sony for the same screen size).
 
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Ian Hughes
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Does it have L & R phono outputs to connect to the hifi?
 
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Edo Engel
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"TV can show the required screen resolution and has the necessary connections to be able to show high definition content."

You might want to know that there's a difference between "HD Ready" and "Full HD".

Cheers,

Edo (not buying)
 
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Don Atkinson
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You might want to know that there's a difference between "HD Ready" and "Full HD".


....and the difference is?............

Cheers

Don
 
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David Dever
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...presence of a built-in HD tuner, as opposed to a standard-def tuner only.
 
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Richard @ Soundcraft
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Originally posted by Don Atkinson:
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You might want to know that there's a difference between "HD Ready" and "Full HD".


....and the difference is?............

Cheers

Don


A set that is able to show a high definition signal but is forced to downscale to standard definition and a set that can show a true high definition signal in all it's glory.
 
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Edo Engel
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"HD Ready" sets will give you a picture that's just above standard def but not quite true high def yet. You might find the following roadmap helpful:

http://techon.nikkeibp.co.jp/article/NEWS/20051027/1101...27sce_hd_roadmap.jpg

Anyway, I will not be buying one of those HD Ready machines, personally...

Cheers,

Edo (whose current SD CRT is not up for replacement anyway)
 
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Don Atkinson
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David, Richard

Thanks for your responses. They don't seem to be saying the same thing. Presumably "HD Ready" could imply a set has BOTH shortcommings.

To the "man in the street" something described as "HD ready" would imply that when HD television or HD DVD becomes available, the monitor part (ie the screen) will be able to accept and display the HD picture in all its HD glory. (presumably 1080p with pixel-to-pixel mapping etc etc). I now get the feeling that "HD Ready" actually implies that the monitor can accept an HD signal, but the output picture is still going to be Standard Definition (probably 780 lines or therabouts on a 42" screen)

Is anybody able to sucinctly describe what is what (please don't post a link to some gobbly-gook web site for nerds and anoraks.........)

Cheers

Don
 
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Edo Engel
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Don,

Version 1: "HD Ready" is just a little trick to sell TV's. They WILL accept a true HD signal but will display it in something better than Standard Definition but far from real HD.

Version 2: Get an "HD Ready" TV. They're better than Standard Definition.

Cheers,

Edo
 
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David Dever
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Watch out for the "bump" in the lower center of the display:

AVS Forums

FWIW, the U.S. version of this set doesn't seem to exhibit this problem (almost bought one for the bedroom)....
 
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Richard @ Soundcraft
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Originally posted by Don Atkinson:
David, Richard

Thanks for your responses. They don't seem to be saying the same thing. Presumably "HD Ready" could imply a set has BOTH shortcommings.

To the "man in the street" something described as "HD ready" would imply that when HD television or HD DVD becomes available, the monitor part (ie the screen) will be able to accept and display the HD picture in all its HD glory. (presumably 1080p with pixel-to-pixel mapping etc etc). I now get the feeling that "HD Ready" actually implies that the monitor can accept an HD signal, but the output picture is still going to be Standard Definition (probably 780 lines or therabouts on a 42" screen)

Is anybody able to sucinctly describe what is what (please don't post a link to some gobbly-gook web site for nerds and anoraks.........)

Cheers

Don


To be able to display the 'HD ready' logo, see below, the set has to be able to display a minimum of 720 lines of vertical resolution AND have an HDMI or DVI (with HDCP) connector. It does NOT have to be able to display, natively, a 1080p image (needing a resolution of 1920x1080).

What is HD ready?

ImageHd-ready.jpg (6 Kb, 16 downloads)
 
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John Channing
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"HD Ready" sets will give you a picture that's just above standard def but not quite true high def yet. You might find the following roadmap helpful:


This is somewhat misleading given that there is little or no chance of 1080p broadcasts in the foreseeable future given the bandwidth requirements of that format. For use in the real World the current crop of HD ready TVs capable of displaying 720p/1080i are all you are ever likely to need.
John
 
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Edo Engel
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Originally posted by John Channing:
This is somewhat misleading given that there is little or no chance of 1080p broadcasts in the foreseeable future given the bandwidth requirements of that format. For use in the real World the current crop of HD ready TVs capable of displaying 720p/1080i are all you are ever likely to need.
John

That's if you only watch broadcasts. Especially if you're an AV enthousiast, you'll also be buying and/or renting HD DVD's (or whatever the format's going to be). Then, you'll definitely be benifiting from a true HD display.

BTW, 1080i can be broadcasted by satellite, don't know about 1080p but I trust it will not be the mother of all problems.

Cheers,

Edo
 
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Andrew Randle
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Also high bandwidth Internet services such as VDSL are likely to cope with 1080p. Something we may see starting to emerge in the next couple of years.

Andrew
 
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