On December 8, 2005 at 11:34, george p said...
They can meet the requirement by transmitting
a standard definition 4:3 digital signal that
is not going to look much better when scaled by
the TV.
george, do you have a way to A/B the digital, NON HD broadcast against the analog braodcast? I do this all the time for customers and the DIGITAL NON HD channel looks at least 5 times better. On our cable system we have the networks in the low channels (analog) and the digital feed in the HD channels which is only digital 4:3 with black side bars uless its broadcast in HD showing the same program. Very east to use the recall button to go back and forth. The difference is night and day.
This can also be done with an analog channel and an OTA channel broadcasting digital (not HD).
Trust me that digital of the same source is way better than analog. My clients don't watch the analog channels for the networks.
To the original poster, if you didn't like the picture, why'd you sell it to them? Isn't there anything else with a better SD picture you can sell them? I've seen SD on lots of Sony's and its watchable.