Well, the broadcasts and gaming consoles are increasing the need for bigger screens. As I only have a 28'' LX I notice this. Watching a soccer game, they show half the field. On a big screen it's OK, but I'm having problems with small players and even smaller ball. This has made me watch much less sports. Its also hard to read some of the info text playing XBOX 360, it's so small. On a 42" screen it would be no problem.
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Well, the broadcasts and gaming consoles are increasing the need for bigger screens. As I only have a 28'' LX I notice this. Watching a soccer game, they show half the field. On a big screen it's OK, but I'm having problems with small players and even smaller ball. This has made me watch much less sports. Its also hard to read some of the info text playing XBOX 360, it's so small. On a 42" screen it would be no problem.
I think the problem you describe is probably more due to the fact that you are watching on a 4:3 aspect ratio on your LX. I have similar experiences with my 4:3 Beovision 1, but no problems at all on the 16:9 Avant. Perhaps you need an Avant, not a big screen?
Personally, i'd rather be at the gym, out surfing or biking but maybe that's just me :)
That's why the word 'personal' is so apposite in your reply!
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Well, the broadcasts and gaming consoles are increasing the need for bigger screens. As I only have a 28'' LX I notice this. Watching a soccer game, they show half the field. On a big screen it's OK, but I'm having problems with small players and even smaller ball. This has made me watch much less sports. Its also hard to read some of the info text playing XBOX 360, it's so small. On a 42" screen it would be no problem.
I think the problem you describe is probably more due to the fact that you are watching on a 4:3 aspect ratio on your LX. I have similar experiences with my 4:3 Beovision 1, but no problems at all on the 16:9 Avant. Perhaps you need an Avant, not a big screen?
IIRC the vertical dimension of a 28" 4:3 screen is greater than that of a 32" 16:9 screen - if so, watching on an Avant would make only make Daniel's problem worse!
IIRC the vertical dimension of a 28" 4:3 screen is greater than that of a 32" 16:9 screen - if so, watching on an Avant would make only make Daniel's problem worse!
Yes, but if the material is 16:9 as the vast majority nowadays is, the problem is the other way round. The horizontal physical size of the display is what decides the size of the visible picture. This, however, doesn't change the fundamental problem: if you want a bigger picture, you ultimately need a bigger screen! Simple as that!
As my "main" TVs still haven't agreed to carry themselves up to my new apartment, I've been watching a couple of smaller MXs. Something like ice hockey can be a bit like guesswork on them, what it wasn't in the 4:3 days.
Of course, there are some silly people who want to watch wrong aspect ratio material either zoomed or cropped, because they like to lose parts of the picture instead of having some dark glass surface 😕
This may look a bit different in the UK, where at least the Beeb apparently likes to use some odd aspect ratios like 14:9 as a compromise (worse for everybody).
This is all true -but so many things that we buy are devalued/replaced quickly - its partly in the nature of big retail driven econmies to need to re-sell products sooner than actually required, partly genuine innovation.
Aside from vinyl, CD, analogue TV and FM broadcasts which all had stability over some decades, the last 25 years have seen a kind of arms race by big entertainment companies - Sony, Phillips etc changing ( or introducing) formats almost annually in the 90's, and in many ways it was an attempt to resell content. Did the market really need DCC, SACD or DAT (domestically)... ?
There are many examples - from films first seen at the cinema, then on TV (bought by the station), then sold on VHS (maybe betamax too) then laser disc, then DVD, then DVD special edition directors remake, then blu-ray, then bluray3D, then streamed through subscription/pay per view. To call it money for old rope hardly covers it.
Albums first heard on vinyl, then 8track, then cassette, then CD, minidisc, DCC, DAT, SACD, CD remaster, CD Legacy Edition with out-takes, MP3...and now streamed via subscription service.
Some titles will have been sold to some people maybe 6 times or more!! Remember hardware companies often have a stake in film/music production companies, so they have a vested interest in rteselling you the same stuff time and again.
Plus, the hardware makers keep sort of re-inventing the wheel just to sell more kit - bigger, better, smaller, quiter, louder, etc etc.
Most cars are worth a fraction of their original sale price with 5 years - many are literally scrap after less than 10 - and they cost more than a TV, on the whole.
We have two avants - one with SKY HD one with BT vision - both are superb sound & picture.... only limited by physical bulk and being 28" and 32" ....but as neither of those is an issue for us, they are perfect.
In fact, an HD signal into an avant - via RgB scart - is really quite superb.
Even though it is placed in a normal sized room,I considered my large screen TV not only made the viewing experience far more enjoyable,but subtitles far easier to read,but apparently all the time I have been an uneducated chav placing more emphasis on the TV than people.
Still,things could be worse.
I might be judgmental,and patronising.
Of course, there are some silly people who want to watch wrong aspect ratio material either zoomed or cropped, because they like to lose parts of the picture instead of having some dark glass surface 😕
I have recently bought a BV7.
My local dealer having set up the TV,I asked why it was not automatically switching to the correct aspect ratio,eg 4:3.
I was told that they had never been asked this before as their customers,having bought a 16:9 TV,wanted the whole screen filled.
It took them some time to find the setting to enable automatic aspect ratio switching.
I might be judgmental,and patronising.
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Head over to the outsourcing thread..... there is a mastercass in patronising & judgemental going on there....with breakout sessions on elitistism, zenophobia and smugness !! 😂
Even though it is placed in a normal sized room,I considered my large screen TV not only made the viewing experience far more enjoyable,but subtitles far easier to read,but apparently all the time I have been an uneducated chav placing more emphasis on the TV than people.
Still,things could be worse.
I might be judgmental,and patronising.
You've conflated two different points of view as to why large screen TVs are gauche there Terry. I'd suggest that supports at least one of those perspectives. You don't have fleur-de-lys wallpaper, do you?
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