BarMoo in the UK: FreeView

BarMoo

So, following on from the monster aerials - FreeView itself.

My mate has jumped on the flat panel bandwagon and has two Bravia LCD flat panels; a large one and, er, an even larger one (both, IMHO, totally oversized for the rooms they are in, but he had the 1000's to splash around not me).

Both Bravia's have a FreeView and Analogue tuner inside.

I found the FreeView quality watchable but definitely ropey - perfectly demostrated on the large and then the larger LCD (sic). As a simple example, just looking at the compression artifacts around static text revealed how ropey a particular channel was.

Anyone else have a similar opinion ?

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Topper

Perhaps this would have been better posted on the Rothschild forum

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BarMoo

LOST ALARM. What's that for a comment Topper - explain ;-))

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Simple really like me Mark
I can only dream of buying a flat panel and your mate goes an buys two, Rothchild is a colloqialism indicating that he is rich. After the wealthy Rothchild family.

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I'm with Topper on this.
Tesco's have a lovely Goodmans flat panel on offer for £349 at the moment.
It's still a bit out of my league at the moment though.

"I owe, I owe, so it's off to work I go"

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BarMoo

LOL, thought you meant something like that ;-))

I'll let you into a secret - its the first time I had ever seen an LCD telly in a house: i.e., not in a shop. Its great that I also got the chance to see real-world DVB-T in the UK for the first time

I wasn't impressed with either; albeit, the smaller Bravia wasn't that ropey with DVD content.

I still walked away favouring satellite over DVB-T and CRT over LCD.

Note: Cheap LCD panels = usually mean non native HD resolution.

Special note for Topper: I still dream about beasties like this *wink*

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2cvbloke

In the shop where I work we have a few plasmas and LCD TVs on display, but we gave up on showing Freeview channels on them because the quality of the images is awful, so now we just play DVD movies on them. I have of course offered a spare dish and lending a spare sky box (yeah, not the best box I know, but they ain't having one of my proper boxes!!! ) to better show the TV's capabilities...

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