Rave: HD tv

[jim]

To get Fox,CBS,NBC,CW,ABC,PBS around St. Louis all you need are rabbit ears. Any regular antenna receives OTA(over the air) HD, all you need is a box that can decode it, or if your HDTV already says it has a tuner built in, then you don't even need a decoder box, just hook it straight into the TV's antenna jack. If you don't watch anything more than the standard network programming you don't need the 40 HD channels, most of them are crap anyway. Plus baseball season is ending, so you might as well just wait to get the full package until April when FSN announces their Cardinal HD lineup.

Oh and if you're looking to buy a TV thats under 50", don't get 1080p or you're wasting your money. To see the difference between 1080p and 720p on a set thats 37", you're going to have to sit about 4 feet from the screen.

But that is not true in like 2 years?

[G. Keenan]

50 inches is weak. 120in. or bust.

QFT.

I'm currently watching my HD/playing video games on a 116 inch 720p screen. 1080p in around a year or so. Build a sound system to boot (still working on that) and you're all set. I could never go back.

Saturdays are interesting. Family/friends come over and the projector is displaying life size HD football for 12 hours.

I'm not sure I need to watch something THAT big on an everyday basis for tv. For sporting events and movies sure. Actually it would just look ridiculous in my living room.

Yeah, I don't have room big enough in my apartment to even house something like that. You'd have to sit too close to the screen for comfort.

My beef with projectors is that it has to be dark in the room to see them. After a while you feel like you're living in a cave.

[clevername]

I have a room in the basement for the projector. My main TV watching is done upstairs on a 42 inch HDTV. Only use the projector for HD shows I follow regularly (pretty much just Lost right now), movies, games, and football.

You can get some brighter projectors these days that don't require total darkness, especially for bright programs like sports. We routinely watch with the dimmers in the back half of the room halfway up. The windows, though, are completely blocked off; projector images are like vampires with sunlight.

[AdmiralKird]

To get Fox,CBS,NBC,CW,ABC,PBS around St. Louis all you need are rabbit ears. Any regular antenna receives OTA(over the air) HD, all you need is a box that can decode it, or if your HDTV already says it has a tuner built in, then you don't even need a decoder box, just hook it straight into the TV's antenna jack. If you don't watch anything more than the standard network programming you don't need the 40 HD channels, most of them are crap anyway. Plus baseball season is ending, so you might as well just wait to get the full package until April when FSN announces their Cardinal HD lineup.

Oh and if you're looking to buy a TV thats under 50", don't get 1080p or you're wasting your money. To see the difference between 1080p and 720p on a set thats 37", you're going to have to sit about 4 feet from the screen.

But that is not true in like 2 years?

Nope, 2008 is a date which was pushed back from 2006, for the cuttoff of analog TV. Right now TV stations broadcast on both analog (for instance Fox is channel 2) and digital (Fox digital is channel 2.1). The purpose is to clear up the analog band for use with safety, military, and government communication use.

When they cut off analog TV all old TVs will need a small box that converts the signal to analog. OTA-HD and TVs made since roughly 1998 on will have no problem.

[G. Keenan]

Watching Planet earth in HD DVD right now. HD DVD is even better than broadcast HD. It's simply stunning.

[cardinalkarp]

Watching Planet earth in HD DVD right now. HD DVD is even better than broadcast HD. It's simply stunning.

I need to get myself a HD DVD (or blu-ray) player. I just want them to come down in price a bit first.

[Michael]

Gk's lifestyle never ceases to amaze me.

[wart57]

I have the X-box 360 with HD DVD player, and A playstation 3 for the Blu-ray. More Movie Choices in Blue-ray. 61 inch Samsung DLP 1080 HD tv and Direct TV Hd DVR. I can't stant to watch anything in non-HD any more. My wife is telling me I watch too much TV anyway.

I may need to take the day off next Tuesday when Halo 3 comes our for X-box 360. It will be sick on the 61 in HDTV.

Dirct TV is supposed to be adding a bunch of ne HD channels soon (actually any day now), but we still don't get the CW in HD, I NEED MY SMALLVILLE IN HD.

[Fat_Bulldog]

I have the X-box 360 with HD DVD player, and A playstation 3 for the Blu-ray. More Movie Choices in Blue-ray. 61 inch Samsung DLP 1080 HD tv and Direct TV Hd DVR. I can't stant to watch anything in non-HD any more. My wife is telling me I watch too much TV anyway.

I may need to take the day off next Tuesday when Halo 3 comes our for X-box 360. It will be sick on the 61 in HDTV.

Dirct TV is supposed to be adding a bunch of ne HD channels soon (actually any day now), but we still don't get the CW in HD, I NEED MY SMALLVILLE IN HD.

Can I come over and play at your house?

[cardinalkarp]

I have the X-box 360 with HD DVD player, and A playstation 3 for the Blu-ray. More Movie Choices in Blue-ray. 61 inch Samsung DLP 1080 HD tv and Direct TV Hd DVR. I can't stant to watch anything in non-HD any more. My wife is telling me I watch too much TV anyway.

I may need to take the day off next Tuesday when Halo 3 comes our for X-box 360. It will be sick on the 61 in HDTV.

Dirct TV is supposed to be adding a bunch of ne HD channels soon (actually any day now), but we still don't get the CW in HD, I NEED MY SMALLVILLE IN HD.

Can I come over and play at your house?

You know he's lying. His wife doesn't let him play w/ that kinda stuff.