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Old 04-07-2009   #30
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Originally Posted by PaulR View Post
I don't have an HD source for my TV (yet!) but when I went round to my friend's house last week I really couldn't see a huge improvement between the HD channels and their SD equivalents. I could just about - I think - see an improvement between the two Luxe channels but nothing startling.

And yet, when I've been in France and looked t soome of the demos in Carrefour or Auchan I can see wonderful detail when they are playing a (presumably) Bluray disc.

Could it be because the disc was outputing 1080p and most TV HD is 720P?
Luxe Channel is slightly different. You can see that the logo in the top right is far better defined in HD (and comes across as almost a true black, the SD version being a rather dark grey).
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