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| Thread ID: 88753 | 2008-04-08 05:18:00 | Digital Television | lakewoodlady (103) | PC World Chat |
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| 656994 | 2008-04-08 05:18:00 | Hi, I am thinking about getting a new tv and want to know which one I should get that will work with digital television when it starts up? Don't want to get something and then have to replace it in a couple of years time. Suggestions very welcome, thanks. |
lakewoodlady (103) | ||
| 656995 | 2008-04-08 05:48:00 | As far as I'm aware you can't buy digital TVs in NZ yet. The next step in TVs in NZ at the moment is High Definition TV which is starting to become availible in NZ, so look for a TV that is High Definition capable (HD). :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 656996 | 2008-04-08 09:36:00 | Hold off a while and you will see HDTV's with built in dual freeview decoders as opposed to having an extra set top box for HD Freeview. NZ is a bit behind the rest of the world in HDTV and looks like we are to follow France's HD formats. Check out the French products and you might get an idea of what to expect here in the near future. |
Bantu (52) | ||
| 656997 | 2008-04-08 10:00:00 | You can't get televisions with digital tuners built-in here yet, but flat panel televisions will accept digital signals via a standard such a HDMI, so you will be able to get digital television via a set top box. Make sure you have a minimum resolution of 1280 x 720, but preferably 1920 x 1080 if you are buying a television above 40-inches. Also make sure the television is HDCP compliant (if it supports HDMI it should be). :) |
maccrazy (6741) | ||
| 656998 | 2008-04-08 12:11:00 | Also you will only get high definition (HD) output from a digital terrestrial set top box, not from the satellite STB's. | feersumendjinn (64) | ||
| 656999 | 2008-04-08 12:20:00 | Hold off a while and you will see HDTV's with built in dual freeview decoders as opposed to having an extra set top box for HD Freeview. NZ is a bit behind the rest of the world in HDTV and looks like we are to follow France's HD formats. Check out the French products and you might get an idea of what to expect here in the near future. I asked the guy at HN this back in January, he informed me that sony wasn't going to do it as NZ was too a small market for the format we are going with. but who knows |
plod (107) | ||
| 657000 | 2008-04-08 13:01:00 | Also you will only get high definition (HD) output from a digital terrestrial set top box, not from the satellite STB's. Sky are going High Definition digital. :) |
Trev (427) | ||
| 657001 | 2008-04-08 14:23:00 | Sky can't even broadcast standard definition tv properly. One wonders how badly they will mangle HDTV There are some threads over at www.dtvforum.co.nz about the current STB's that are available. |
apsattv (7406) | ||
| 657002 | 2008-04-08 19:16:00 | I asked the guy at HN this back in January, he informed me that sony wasn't going to do it as NZ was too a small market for the format we are going with. but who knows NZ will get them probably before the end of this year. I don't know about Sony but it will happen. |
Bantu (52) | ||
| 657003 | 2008-04-08 19:31:00 | I have a 32" LCD TV with HDMI inputs around a year old. Last weekend I purchased a Zinwell Terrestrial HD set top box and installed it. It took me longer to drive the 5K home from the shop than it did to install the box. Piece of cake!!! Already had a UHF arial on the roof and had a HDMI cable. Just plugged in the arial, connected the HDMI cable, powered up and after a simple run through the options I now have HD TV at times when transmitted. Even when the signal is SD, it is pretty darned good. Blows Sky away completely. The HD demo channel is great to see as well. Quite a bit of HD on TV3 at present. Don't wait, it is here already. Ken |
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