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I've got digital satellite, which clearly looks better on my 42" HD Plasma than on my old 32" CRT. Besides, I've also got a pretty fancy HTPC setup which makes DVDs look pretty spectacular. Still, it's a shame that I won't get full value out of my TV before it's outdated. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

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Yeah. And I believe here in the States all channels will be digital this Januarary.

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The quality obviously depends on the station broadcasting it. Some of the networks don't have 100% HD cameras covering the course(NBC I think?) and some do(CBS). I remember reading this somewhere a while back so I'm not positive on the stations.

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You MAY have it backwards. I just watched the Presidents thing in HD this weekend. Oh-My-God. Looks FANTASTIC. The lake or whatever, in the middle, the autumn ish trees. Really reminded me of home.

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A lot of times golf does look worse than other sports, flipping between golf and a football game, both in HD, almost every time golf looks much fuzzier and blurrier. I don't know why that is, if there aren't enough hd cameras to shoot 18 holes so they fudge and use widescreen SD cameras or what, but I notice it too.

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Even though HD does look a lot better I don't find sports to be that much more entertaining on it. Kind of like how video games these days have far better graphics yet most of them still suck.

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I've got digital satellite, which clearly looks better on my 42" HD Plasma than on my old 32" CRT. Besides, I've also got a pretty fancy HTPC setup which makes DVDs look pretty spectacular. Still, it's a shame that I won't get full value out of my TV before it's outdated. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

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You suck because:

[x] You bought plasma and not LCD
[x] You bought HD-Ready and not True-HD
[x] You play DVDs and not HD-DVDs

If you want HDTV in Norway, get a satellite dish.

Furthermore, when HDTV finally is available in Norway, it will be a lot better (MPEG-4 / IPTV) than the current American system.

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I've got digital satellite, which clearly looks better on my 42" HD Plasma than on my old 32" CRT. Besides, I've also got a pretty fancy HTPC setup which makes DVDs look pretty spectacular. Still, it's a shame that I won't get full value out of my TV before it's outdated. [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

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You suck because:

[x] You bought plasma and not LCD
[x] You bought HD-Ready and not True-HD
[x] You play DVDs and not HD-DVDs

If you want HDTV in Norway, get a satellite dish.

Furthermore, when HDTV finally is available in Norway, it will be a lot better (MPEG-4 / IPTV) than the current American system.

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You burned him good.

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You suck because:

[x] You bought HD-Ready and not True-HD

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Those two terms are not opposites. HD-Ready means the tv doesn't have it's own ATSC tuner, and needs an outside tuner from a cable or satellite box to display HD images.

TrueHD is one of two things:
(a) A lossless Dolby audio format
(b) what some people colloquially refer to 1080p as

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Furthermore, when HDTV finally is available in Norway, it will be a lot better (MPEG-4 / IPTV) than the current American system.

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DirecTV currently broadcasts many HD channels using mpeg-4. In America.

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You suck because:

[x] You bought plasma and not LCD


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Why is this? I bought a plasma after a little bit of research and viewing the two types side-by-side, and am more than happy with the plasma. Seems like the technology has caught up with the flaws in both, especially over the past year.