Comments on: woikr explains: Full HD and HD Ready TVs

By: central govt employees news

central govt employees news — Sat, 10 Jul 2010 11:36:12 +0000

Detailed and well explained with the help of pictures.
Very nice explanation from you. Lets expect in Indian almost all our favourite indian channels will switch to HD platform. !!

By: DTH operators unleash HD price war in India | woikr

DTH operators unleash HD price war in India | woikr — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 03:23:55 +0000

[...] are probably up-scaled from their SD content. So their quality might appear slightly lower than the actual HD channels (Nat Geo HD and Discovery [...]

By: DTH Companies planning to launch HD Set Top Boxes this year | woikr

DTH Companies planning to launch HD Set Top Boxes this year | woikr — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 06:04:00 +0000

[...] in India (Dish TV, Reliance Big TV, Airtel Digital TV and Tata Sky) are planning to launch High Definition (HD) set top boxes (STB) this year. Sun DTH already has HD ready boxes and HD service in [...]

By: Tata Sky planning to launch HD channels in India this year | woikr

Tata Sky planning to launch HD channels in India this year | woikr — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 07:47:40 +0000

[...] transmissions offer 5 times more pixels than SD transmission. HD ready transmission at 720p or 1080i are substantially superior to their SD counterparts as they [...]

By: jishnu jagajeeve

jishnu jagajeeve — Fri, 08 Jan 2010 07:37:53 +0000

thanks dude..nice work..

By: Rajiv Dang

Rajiv Dang — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 13:47:48 +0000

Thanx a lot. My choice is now final.
Bye.

By: Setu

Setu — Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:51:55 +0000

Definitely Macbook Pro. With it’s super awesome screen, you will be able to enjoy your photos and movies in the best possible way!

By: RAJIV DANG

RAJIV DANG — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 08:57:55 +0000

Waiting for ur remarks.

By: RAJIV DANG

RAJIV DANG — Sun, 03 Jan 2010 08:57:09 +0000

Thanx for ton of informatioon.

How do u rate FW 13 when compared with MacBook Pro 15 inches or 17 inches, more when I have to use it for photos / movies, clicked on Sony AVCHD mode?

Please guide. Thanx.

By: Amit Prakash

Amit Prakash — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 12:31:38 +0000

Nice Article, Except for the last part. We won’t have Full HD bradcasts or Full HD signals in India, or anywhere else in the world for a long time. Even now very few select channels provide this. It will take atleast 3-4 years for HD ready level broadcasts in India much less Full HD. Blu Ray is also too expensive right now.

Go in for a HD ready TV now at half the price, in 4 years time even the Full HD TVs will be obsolete and at a 1/3 todays rates (factoring in the inflation of course), might make more sense to just take the HD ready TVs now as the resolution is much more than anything we can throw at them for the next few years anyway, The rest is a marketing gimmick and tech crazy reviewers who think that everyone just uses TVs for Blu Ray discs or PS3s. Not a sensible buy either way.

By: Ananth

Ananth — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:38:54 +0000

“I am recommending Full HD TVs over HD ready ones keeping the future in mind. Blu Ray, PS3 and XBOX are slowly gaining popularity in India.”

Yes but how many will buy these things? For the general population(people who are ready to spend below 50K) popular thought is still HD ready. Sun Direct charges Rs 100 per HD channel.!!! maybe in the future prices will come down and there will be more hd content available…. but I think its in the distant future.

Anyways nice article…..

By: Setu

Setu — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 10:41:32 +0000

@Simon –

Appreciate your feedback.

I accept your premise about the PAL system.
As far as visual acuity is concerned, I am sure if you tell anyone that a Full HD TV is better than a HD ready TV, even if they cannot spot the difference easily, they will be inclined to buy the full HD one. Reason – people do not change TVs frequently. Especially here in India, TVs last for more than 5 years before they are changed. Hence, it is important that they buy the best their money can buy.
Regarding your last point, I agree that the images might get a little blurred when they are upscaled from SD, however, the resulting experience is still far better than a conventional CRT TV. Mainly because LCDs and Plasmas offer much better contrast ratio and refresh rate. The resolution of the picture is not the only factor which determines the overall quality. Additionally, if you use a PAL to VGA converter, the results are much better.
I am recommending Full HD TVs over HD ready ones keeping the future in mind. Blu Ray, PS3 and XBOX are slowly gaining popularity in India. Plus with competition pumping up in the DTH arena, we might see the launch of HD services in India soon. An indication is Tata Sky+.

By: Simon

Simon — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 21:28:59 +0000

You’ve made three serious errors. First, SD pictures in India don’t have 480 lines, they have 576 lines. That’s because India uses PAL, like most of the world, rather than NTSC like the US, Canada and Japan. Second, most people’s visual acuity isn’t good enough to be able to see the higher resolution of Full HD compared to HD Ready at normal viewing distance of 10 feet (3 metres) unless the screen is more than 50 inches (125cm). Third, SD transmissions (which is what’s being broadcast now) have to be upscaled from 576 lines to 768 lines or 1080 lines. Upscaling blurs the image and more upscaling blurs more. So watching SD on a Full HD display actually gives you a worse picture than on an otherwise equivalent HD Ready display. Don’t believe everything you read on a Sony website.

By: Siddharth

Siddharth — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 04:57:21 +0000

As usual , detailed and accurate stuff from Setu sir , gud work sir.

By: Sony Vaio FW13 - First Full HD Laptop? [Not Really] | woikr

Sony Vaio FW13 - First Full HD Laptop? [Not Really] | woikr — Wed, 17 Sep 2008 19:15:00 +0000

[...] Weighing at 3 kgs, and with a battery backup of a mere 2 hours, this seems to come under the category of Desktop Replacement laptops, and a pricey one at that. I do not know how Sony can call this a Full HD laptop when the screen has a maximum resolution of 1600 x 900 pixels. You can surely call it HD ready. But definitly not Full HD (In case you are wondering why, read this). [...]