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Old 3rd January 2007, 16:28   #64 (permalink)
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I what ways do you think they are similar???
i am not a techie to explain it in technical terms, but i will tell try. In the normal 100Hz TVs that we get to buy for a king's ransom, you get smearing of images, trails etc. This smearing is caused by digital artifacts (The set has to do digital encoding and decoding in realtime), since most of the TV signals are in analogue. A faster and better processor in the TV may lessen or resolve this issue. But while playing a DVD, it is entirely different, the picture quality is amazing with vivid colours that you can only dream of in a 50HZ TV.

Coming to LCD screens, the most vital part is the response time. That is the time taken for one pixel in the panel to go from active to inactive & back to active again. The higher the response time, more the digital artifacts as caused in the 100HZ TVs. (See the similarity ?). Now, there are excellent LCDs & excellent 100HZ Tvs, but what we see in our 'exclusive' showrooms is mostly full of sets that have a resposnse time that is not adequate to show our analog signals in good clarity. of course, the movie channels might look good, which it does for me too, but the real problem is when you watch poor quality signals (which are very much available even in DTH) & in watching sports channels with inadequate bandwidth.

It seems that the manufacturers needed a selling point that would be cheap to implement and released technology that was not ready.

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