RRTom
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What type of programming you are watching makes a difference. I like HD for sports. It gives more of a feeling of being there, without paying the outrageous prices for a ticket.
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rgatijnet1
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Keith Haw wrote:rvrepairnut wrote:rgatijnet1 wrote:HD is not that important but some of the channels that I get, that are ONLY broadcast in HD with DirecTV, are important to me.
even if its broadcast in HD u can still receive the channel
Well yes and no. Dish Network has channels that you can only receive if you have a HD receiver. Most of there channels you can get with or without a HD receiver but some, like 361 and up, you have to have a HD receiver. Only way I know this is my dad upgraded to HD before I did and kept talking about shows on those channels I could not get until I went to an HD receiver.
That is exactly right. With DirecTV, the Velocity channel(for the Classic car auctions) and a few other channels are ONLY broadcast in HD so if you do not have the HD package and receiver, you cannot receive them.
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mdprince
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We still have SD in the coach with a 32", 23" and a 27" (I think) and it all looks 'fine'. Our 32" main in the front of the coach is an older HD that can only go to 720p. That said, when we watch a bluray at 720 on that tv, it sure looks good !! Once day, if and when we spend more time traveling, I will probably go to HD but all is good now.
In the stick house, everything is HD but the sets are all bigger ! JMHO
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evandodds
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mdprince wrote:We still have SD in the coach with a 32", 23" and a 27" (I think) and it all looks 'fine'. Our 32" main in the front of the coach is an older HD that can only go to 720p. That said, when we watch a bluray at 720 on that tv, it sure looks good !! Once day, if and when we spend more time traveling, I will probably go to HD but all is good now.
In the stick house, everything is HD but the sets are all bigger ! JMHO
Any resolution >480 or with a "p" (= "progressive scan" as opposed to "i" which is an "interlaced" refresh) is HD, ergo 720p is HD. SD is always 480i (only). So when you watch bluray (HD source) on your 720p 32" TV, it's HD and that's why it looks so good. 
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mdprince
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evandodds wrote:mdprince wrote:We still have SD in the coach with a 32", 23" and a 27" (I think) and it all looks 'fine'. Our 32" main in the front of the coach is an older HD that can only go to 720p. That said, when we watch a bluray at 720 on that tv, it sure looks good !! Once day, if and when we spend more time traveling, I will probably go to HD but all is good now.
In the stick house, everything is HD but the sets are all bigger ! JMHO
Any resolution >480 or with a "p" (= "progressive scan" as opposed to "i" which is an "interlaced" refresh) is HD, ergo 720p is HD. SD is always 480i (only). So when you watch bluray (HD source) on your 720p 32" TV, it's HD and that's why it looks so good.
You are correct !! I wasn't trying to imply that 720p was not HD, just that our in motion dish antenna on the roof is SD. Even 480p looks a bit better than 480i.
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Better check with someone that knows their business on this matter. I was told that if your coach was not wiered for (HD) internally it would not broadcast in HD. My guy said if you run your T V's in the coach with out the blue plug in the back of you TV (mine only runs on three (yellow white and red) HD is not going to work anyway.
I'm oly saying what I was told and not putting it out here as gospal.
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11B wrote:Better check with someone that knows their business on this matter. I was told that if your coach was not wiered for (HD) internally it would not broadcast in HD. My guy said if you run your T V's in the coach with out the blue plug in the back of you TV (mine only runs on three (yellow white and red) HD is not going to work anyway.
I'm oly saying what I was told and not putting it out here as gospal.
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Not sure what the "blue plug" is, but Yellow/White/Red is almost certainly the old "RCA connector" composite cable, which is analog and not HD.
There are a couple easy ways to get HD on your HD-capable TV:
- Hook up an antenna via coax and tune HD ATSC off the air
- Hook up cable-company COAX with a clear-QAM signal feed on it and tune the TV with QAM (some of which may be SD and some may be HD)
- Hook up some source (Blueray, HD satellite receiver, etc) via an HD cable -- almost certainly using HDMI as that cable.
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