Thats a lot of cabbage to be sure!

Im on satellite TV with a $60 HDTV antennae for local HDTV broadcast.

the sat bill is around $40ish and adding HDTV is $10, but you have to get a receiver of course. A combo sat tuner + 30 hr HDTV PVR will only set you back $400 over here, not that Im going to get one now. Prices will plummet in a year or two.

HDTV is pretty lush, I watch my 3-4 brain emptying series with it, and its cinematic to be sure. Quite shocking how perfect it is just using an indoor antennae.

blimey its nice to see how they made it all affordable so normal people can get it.

lets see only 300 quid for the box & only an extra 120 quid a year for the HDTV channels on top of the **small** ammounts LOL that people are paying for sky sports etc... bargain  :shock:

methinks Ill wait for the prices to come down

like max said - tis a lot of cabbage (like that phrase - wish we had green money in the uk)

The nasty sting in the tail is that the actual available channels is going to be highly limited initially so chances are it wont be worth it for the first year. By the time they sort out the broadcasting of the rest of the channels the price should have come down.

Present 32" HRTV does a very good job of interpolating the extra pixels needed for standard 625 lines TV and I dont feel any need to upgrade for the immediate future.

Is it right that this is only going to be 720p? Id feel put out having kit that does 1080p and cant use it !

720 is smoother for film and such:

The main tradeoff between the two is that 1080i may show more detail than 720p for a stationary shot of a subject at the expense of introducing interlace artifacts from a motion of the camera (such as a pan) or motion of the subject. 720p is used by ABC and ESPN because the smoother image is desirable for fast-action sports telecasts.

Its an interlacing thang. Both are very nice, I cant really tell the difference watching programming in either, tho 720 is nicer for sports.

No biggie, and misleading numbers to boot.

Is it right that this is only going to be 720p? Id feel put out having kit that does 1080p and cant use it !

Then get an Xbox360!  

I fancy a 1080p screen for my main pc display / gaming / media center / xbox360

couldnt give two hoots how big it isnt as long as it looks lush

 


roll on IPTV and fat broadband pipes is all i can say, hope that it knocks the overpriced HDD recorder for 6

I dont think it can do 1080p either? I thought only the PS3 could

It was 1080p that i was on about - not 1080i

And the screen would be slightly larger than 50 - about 79 inches bigger than 50 to be precise !

if you read here:
http://www.tekforums.co.uk/posts/list/345.page
Looks like ps3 cant even do it properly yet.