Are all plasmas piss poor for football?

[spirez]

I went to look at a load of TVs the other day and all the plasmas looked crap for the football, really blocky and couldnt keep up.

I looked at cheap ass Bush's right up to £2k+ Sony's and they all looked poor to me.

Will it be any better with HD TV?

 

[Jay]

I'm sure it will, answer sky hd

 

[McBunny]

its better with hd

plasma is better thanlcd for football

 

[Griff]

I went to look at a load of TVs the other day and all the plasmas looked crap for the football, really blocky and couldnt keep up.

Most likely to be the digital compression rather than the screen itself. If anything a decent Plasma will be better than LCD for footy.

 

[Matteh]

yeh, its usually due to the crap compression by the provider. you really do notice it more on larger screens

As said, hi def is the way to go

After playing back a few hi def things through mine i was thoroughly impressed. you really do get a crisp image

 

[McBunny]

chances are you were stood too close aswell

 

[spirez]

Defo wasn't too close. My mates also got one but i'm not sure if it's LCD or plasma. It's a sony 42" and set him back £2100 but the quality of football was awful, i couldnt watch a whole game like that

 

[Griff]

Like we've said the bigger the screen the worse the digital compression appears onscreen. Go back to your mates and stick one of the music channels/shopping channels on and it will look 100 times worse.

 

[McBunny]

really you need to turn off stuff like black strech all noise reduction any picture processing and turn the brightness down and the contrast too as they all make thepicture look s**t

with a 42" tv you should be sat 12-14" away really

 

[M1TCH]

plasma's have been way over hyped for the football.

loads of adverts with HD plasmas for the best experience of watching football....

yeah all very well and good but they are still broadcast in normall digital not HD so theres no difference.

bet they got loads of sales from the suckers!

 

[McBunny]

plasma's have been way over hyped for the football.

loads of adverts with HD plasmas for the best experience of watching football....

yeah all very well and good but they are still broadcast in normall digital not HD so theres no difference.

bet they got loads of sales from the suckers!

actually you are wrong plasmas are better than lcd for displaying sd sources its the way its always been

 

[spirez]

Like we've said the bigger the screen the worse the digital compression appears onscreen. Go back to your mates and stick one of the music channels/shopping channels on and it will look 100 times worse.

Yeah i looked at MTV etc, they were shocking!

 

[M1TCH]

actually you are wrong plasmas are better than lcd for displaying sd sources its the way its always been

ment plasmas/LCd's in general. theyve over hyped the HD stuff for the football.

sky HD is a con at the mo too.

 

[McBunny]

well yes for sd you cant beat crt but thats because it hides th eproblems of sd sources much better than hd displays as they just highlight the faults in the source

 

[SimonV6]

Well my 40" LCD with SKY HD looks AWESOME for the football.....the England match was so much better than SD (I flicked back to SD just to see the difference...lol)

The only real problem with SKY HD, is there are not enough program really yet, but who gives a sh*t.....its only money


Simon

 

[-KarL-]

40"!! wish i had a tv that big

 

[Jays172]

It's all in the refresh rate as to the stuttering

 

[Caramel]

i got a 43" pioneer plasma with sky hd thats the b****cks. and a 32" samsung lcd. the lcd is good for what it is, but the plasma rapes it. watching the football on bbc hd btw. as for sky hd its going up by a few hundred pounds soon, the first boxes were on special offer, which includes 300GB and free install, the new boxes will have a smaller hard drive etc

 

[SimonV6]

Funny that because I also have a 42" plasma that doesn't look as good as the 40" LCD in HD? Plasma's are crap at high res and high colours, but look good in Black's.....lol


Simon

 

[Griff]

as for sky hd its going up by a few hundred pounds soon, the first boxes were on special offer, which includes 300GB and free install, the new boxes will have a smaller hard drive etc

Pub talk... :boring:

 

[sneeks]

The World Cup is looking good on my lcd with a Telewest HD feed for BBC and ITV.

 

[Karen]

really you need to turn off stuff like black strech all noise reduction any picture processing and turn the brightness down and the contrast too as they all make thepicture look sh*t

with a 42" tv you should be sat 12-14" away really

12-14" :S

 

[mat-nos]

ive got a 50" sony bravia and that was mint to watch the football on, also helps to have good quality scart leads and the contrast/brightness set up properly to watch football!!
was abit skippy and patchy sound in a few places but i put tht down to the beer lol

 

[mat-nos]

12-14" :S

i think he means feet or he has a problem with his sight lol

 

[McBunny]

yes feet sorry 12-14' lol

 

[Caramel]

pun talk... only passing on what a sky installer told me

 

[darren_rallye]

Was it running in the shop off of a source split between a million TVs... :dapprove:

 

[darren_rallye]

[RANT]

The number of people who's houses I've been to with TVs set up in the wrong aspect ratio, and with a PAL rather than RGB output selected annoys me

[/RANT]

 

[Griff]

pun talk... only passing on what a sky installer told me

Exactly mate.. Like asking a Renault mechanic about the 197. He'd probably tell you it was twin turbo'd.