I'm in the Seattle area. I'm watching over the air ATSC with a Samsung SIR-T451 connected to a Mitsubishi 55 inch crt projection TV that's only capable of 1080i but not 720p. That means that the samsung is set to always output at 1080i to my TV.
ABC is not broadcasting wide screen, and looks low def, even though my samsung on screen says HD. My stereo is decoding a 5.1 dolby digital sound stream.
NBC is running wide screen, and you can definitely tell it is wide screen. I can see the flicker on the screen, especially around George's brilliant white collar line. I'm guessing this is 1080i. The stereo is decoding 5.1, and this sounds like it's coming significantly more from the front center channel, where ABC was a broader sound from the front three speakers. I'm not noticing significant applause noise from the surround channels.
CBS is running wide screen, in HD. The flicker on his collar isn't as noticeable. I noticed more applause from the surround speakers just now. I'm guessing that this is being broadcast in 720p, but I have no way of checking.
PBS is airing the state of the union on their SD channel, with Dolby 2 channel sound. (which sounds an awful lot like what ABC was broadcasting) The Samsung knows it's in SD, and I think it actually looks better than ABC's video. The other PBS subchannels are playing normal programming, including the HD subchannel. (9.1 and 9.3 are SD, 9.5 is HD)
Fox is airing "The Simpsons".
I bought this TV nearly four years ago, and have been wanting a flat panel tv to replace it. One advantage that this TV might have is that it has variable sized pixels, while a new flat panel would have fixed sized pixels and a video scaler.
The geek in me constantly wants to be able to hit a button and know what resolution it's actually running in. My samsung set top box doesn't give me that. I'm also looking for a set top box to simply continue to use my old sony SD tv as It still looks better than my projection tv much of the time. Finding an inexpensive set top tuner is something I'd like to see covered, since NTSC will stop broadcasting in just two years.
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I'm in the Seattle area. I'm watching over the air ATSC with a Samsung SIR-T451 connected to a Mitsubishi 55 inch crt projection TV that's only capable of 1080i but not 720p. That means that the samsung is set to always output at 1080i to my TV.
ABC is not broadcasting wide screen, and looks low def, even though my samsung on screen says HD. My stereo is decoding a 5.1 dolby digital sound stream.
NBC is running wide screen, and you can definitely tell it is wide screen. I can see the flicker on the screen, especially around George's brilliant white collar line. I'm guessing this is 1080i. The stereo is decoding 5.1, and this sounds like it's coming significantly more from the front center channel, where ABC was a broader sound from the front three speakers. I'm not noticing significant applause noise from the surround channels.
CBS is running wide screen, in HD. The flicker on his collar isn't as noticeable. I noticed more applause from the surround speakers just now. I'm guessing that this is being broadcast in 720p, but I have no way of checking.
PBS is airing the state of the union on their SD channel, with Dolby 2 channel sound. (which sounds an awful lot like what ABC was broadcasting) The Samsung knows it's in SD, and I think it actually looks better than ABC's video. The other PBS subchannels are playing normal programming, including the HD subchannel. (9.1 and 9.3 are SD, 9.5 is HD)
Fox is airing "The Simpsons".
I bought this TV nearly four years ago, and have been wanting a flat panel tv to replace it. One advantage that this TV might have is that it has variable sized pixels, while a new flat panel would have fixed sized pixels and a video scaler.
The geek in me constantly wants to be able to hit a button and know what resolution it's actually running in. My samsung set top box doesn't give me that. I'm also looking for a set top box to simply continue to use my old sony SD tv as It still looks better than my projection tv much of the time. Finding an inexpensive set top tuner is something I'd like to see covered, since NTSC will stop broadcasting in just two years.
CBS, NBC, and HDNet are 1080i
ABC is 720p and Fox is too usually, but on this and some other shows they are 480p.