[TV] Why don't women do HD

Nigella's Cream Pie · Nov 23, 2017

Bigtomfu said:
Without a doubt this is a thing. The game changer for me about five years ago was getting the new Virgin HD box in time for Wimbledon and being quite AGOG that the net wasn’t a homogenous piece of black cloth. Unreal detail.

Suddenly made the women’s matches much more palatable too. [emoji102]

I’ve thought this for a while now, especially Sky Sports. Cricket balls are basically single cuboid pixels in SD now and seem to skip across the green background slower than on a CPC6128 hooked up to an old GRUNDIG 14 incher.

Yes, like watching the Ashes highlights with the free BT Sports App, grrr!

Tom Hark Preston Park · Nov 23, 2017

btnbelle said:
I'm ok with SD. Unless I'm watching football or a water based scene, I can't see enough difference to worry.

Was watching Blue Planet II the other night. Some of the HD scenes were so stunning they actually looked artificial.

What I find mildly annoying is when you watch the BBC national news in HD then at the end when they switch to the regional news you get 15 minutes of a red screen of death with a message 'HD is not yet available in your region'. Nor any other region presumably.

Eeyore · Nov 23, 2017

I think I have an HD TV. I honestly don't know. I just watch it. Actually, I don't watch it often. My laptop is HD. I think.

Harry Wilson's tackle · Nov 23, 2017

afcb said:
I'm intrigued.

As well as the missus I have two daughters. They will just slap a programme on and when I walk in I ask why they aren't watching in HD when to me it looks like a sack of shit. They just shrug and carry on.

The mother in law is the same, new 48 inch super duper TV and just watches everything in SD. I pop around my mums and its the same...not watching HD and moans that if affects the volume if she changes to HD. Pop around my sisters and the same.

Yet any bloke I know with full control of the zapper is watching in HD / 4K whatever.....

Obscure thread I know.

Mrs T says 'bollocks - HD every time for me'.

btnbelle · Nov 23, 2017

Tom Hark said:
Was watching Blue Planet II the other night. Some of the HD scenes were so stunning they actually looked artificial.

What I find mildly annoying is when you watch the BBC national news in HD then at the end when they switch to the regional news you get 15 minutes of a red screen of death with a message 'HD is not yet available in your region'. Nor any other region presumably.

I watch news in SD and so I don't get that annoying message. It nice we all get a choice.

Perry's Tracksuit Bottoms · Nov 23, 2017

My partner recently brought a nice big telly into my life, and it was she who said to me "why aren't you watching in HD"?

She is unusually brilliant though.

dazzer6666 · Nov 23, 2017

Perry's Tracksuit Bottoms said:
My partner recently brought a nice big telly into my life, and it was she who said to me "why aren't you watching in HD"?

She is unusually brilliant though.

Punching above your weight ? [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]

Bodian · Nov 23, 2017

My sister gave me some old programmes for my birthday. There was one from 1982 (Wolves, 4 May if you really want to know) that contained an advert by Rediffusion for a telly that had 'Quick warm up time.....less than 10 seconds'. Along with the "Latest 110 degree precision in-line self-converging picture tube". How would NSC have dealt with that??

Ceej · Nov 23, 2017

Dishwasher loading routine for best wash and drain results is also a "thing". All part of life's rich tapestry :lolol:

Official Old Man · Nov 23, 2017

My Wife records the omnibus edition of Coronation Street on a Saturday morning. It has a bloke in the corner doing sign language. When I asked her if it interfered with the viewing she said no, but did wonder why it was there.
I have to watch BBC1 Breakfast in SD as the HD version doesn't have local news (Sky version).

jimhigham · Nov 23, 2017

Mrs H remains incapable of finding HD channels. Very odd. Daughter H is right on it.

GT49er · Nov 24, 2017

I can get HD channels. I doubt if either of my elderly TV sets are actually showing the programmes in HD though. Anyway, even if they are, I can't see the difference - and I don't give a sh*t!

pastafarian · Nov 24, 2017

afcb said:
I'm intrigued.

As well as the missus I have two daughters. They will just slap a programme on and when I walk in I ask why they aren't watching in HD when to me it looks like a sack of shit. They just shrug and carry on.

The mother in law is the same, new 48 inch super duper TV and just watches everything in SD. I pop around my mums and its the same...not watching HD and moans that if affects the volume if she changes to HD. Pop around my sisters and the same.

Yet any bloke I know with full control of the zapper is watching in HD / 4K whatever.....

Obscure thread I know.

Too true.
Its the same with the content as well.
Why are you watching that crap(Eastenders) when football is on?

Petunia · Nov 24, 2017

Harry Wilson's tackle said:
Mrs T says 'bollocks - HD every time for me'.

As does Petunia.

Having said that, the TV here does leave a lot to be desired :nono:

swd40 · Nov 24, 2017

Easy 10 said:
I remember when I first got a HD Sky box, with my super-duper new HDTV. First thing I watched was an evening match between Aston Villa and somebody-or-other, and it was SNOWING. I watched it utterly AGOG, and just kept saying to her "look at the snowflakes...look at the grass...look at the faces in the crowd!!", as she just sat there and rolled her eyes. It was an Ashes year as well. I just had a perma-hard-on, and it wasn't even Babestation.

Does anyone else think that they actually broadcast SD in SLIGHTLY worse definition these days, just to make HD look so much better...or has SD just always been shit ?

In the same way olde Gillette razors are not as good/sharp as they used to be, compared to the newer (same manufacturer) "improved" models on offer.

Klaas · Nov 24, 2017

If I might humbly add a contribution to this festival of mild sexism, how about not moving the mouse pointer away from the bottom of the screen so that you can still see the border/controls and it doesn't go full screen? That's annoying.

Juan Albion · Nov 24, 2017

And I thought it was only Senora Albion. Baffles me, it really does.

Albion my Albion · Nov 24, 2017

afcb said:
I'm intrigued.

As well as the missus I have two daughters. They will just slap a programme on and when I walk in I ask why they aren't watching in HD when to me it looks like a sack of shit. They just shrug and carry on.

The mother in law is the same, new 48 inch super duper TV and just watches everything in SD. I pop around my mums and its the same...not watching HD and moans that if affects the volume if she changes to HD. Pop around my sisters and the same.

Yet any bloke I know with full control of the zapper is watching in HD / 4K whatever.....

Obscure thread I know.

I don't find there is a great difference between HD and SD except for sport.

Washie · Nov 24, 2017

People still watch TV?

HitchinSeagull · Nov 24, 2017

Albion my Albion said:
I don't find there is a great difference between HD and SD except for sport.

Genuinely get your eyes checked, if it's on a small TV I get you, but any large TV it's a massive difference.

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