70" Screens And Free To Air Tv

[jpb308]

Hi

Looking at replacing our 47" with a 70" screen because we've moved to a house with a bigger lounge room.

Looked at a few Full HD screens and like the Sony KDL70W850B.

But asked the salesperson to put it on free to air TV and it looked really bad - pixelated, laggy and blurry.

Did the same on all the big screens and they were the same.

Is this just a problem with this size screen and there's no way around it?

Look resigned to buying a smaller screen now. Very disappointed.....

Any advise appreciated.

Cheers

Jeremy

[pgdownload]

Here's a youtube video. Pop it up to full screen on your Hi Res PC monitor and it looks awful. Same thing happens when you view SD content on the 'big screen'

SD maxes out at around 42". The reason HD was invented was screens had moved past the 42" size and content needed to have better resolution to look reasonable. HD on a 60" screen is technically little better than SD on a 40" screen. Its just bigger (which was the point of HD - not increased perspicacity, just biggerness )

IMO 50" is about the sweet spot for a mix of HD and SD content. The upside is that 50" TVs are a fair bit less expensive than 70"

Regards

Peter Gillespie

[jutta]

In store you're standing closer than seated at home usually so it may improve slightly but at that size it's **** to say the least. Try spotting the football in the air on the rubbish AFL put forward. Best sport to view is the F1 replay on OneHD usually.

I must admit I've become accustomed somewhat to dodgy SD broadcast but each time you flick back from HD sources it's very evident. And that's on a 64" panel I felt handled SD the best in store.

Edited February 11, 2015 by Jutta

[mwd]

I view Free to Air on a 60" Pio Kuro plasma via a Magic MTV4000 PVR at 2.9m with no problems whatsoever. Hard to tell the difference between HD and SD at that distance.

Pixelation and lag are more to do with the transmission than the TV receiver. Not many retailers have TVs connected to an antenna to receive fta.

70" at 3m+ with free to air should be perfectly acceptable IMO.

Edited February 11, 2015 by mwd

[jutta]

I'll take your eyes if they can't see the difference.

Even NBA TV on the AppleTV is leaps and bounds in front of NBL on Aust FTA SD broadcasts.

[JSmith]

Hi

Looking at replacing our 47" with a 70" screen because we've moved to a house with a bigger lounge room.

Looked at a few Full HD screens and like the Sony KDL70W850B.

But asked the salesperson to put it on free to air TV and it looked really bad - pixelated, laggy and blurry.

Did the same on all the big screens and they were the same.

Is this just a problem with this size screen and there's no way around it?

Look resigned to buying a smaller screen now. Very disappointed.....

Any advise appreciated.

Cheers

Jeremy

The FTA DTV situation is Australia is a disastrous mess...

I wouldn't however base my purchase upon FTA or SD quality... base it on 1080p blurays and 720p online streams.

Some Samsung models allow independent adjustment of de-judder and blur... set blur reduction high, de-judder low.

JSmith

Edited February 19, 2015 by jsmith

[Aj72]

Agree with the above. I have a Sony 70 inch 850b and it's very good IMO. FTA or SD is pretty ordinary but better than what the Samsung 6400 60inch was IMO which I had for only a month due to fault (horizontal ghosting lines). I bought the TV for Bluray purposes and think it does a good job. very happy with it. Ocassionally during dark scenes I sometimes notice slight trailing or blurring but it's within acceptable limits for me. When watching SD HD broadcasts e.g soccer the difference is quite noticeable. Not sure if buying the expensive version will be any better. I'm very happy with the television but I'm sure they will get even better in the future free of shimmering, halo's, judder, blurring etc. I sit around three metres away from my tv, it's great and performs within acceptable limits of the aforementioned issues that go with the territory.