OK, cool.
Who doesn't own a telly?
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OK, cool.
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good point. i wonder how many of the 'shoot benefit spongers' dont pay their TV license?
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BS. a decent player will give you a better picture. high bit rates, better colours and better motion. my BDP is a better picture than my ps3 and PC (see gfx card in sig)
so you are saying a high level DVD player is no better than a £20 bush one?
I currently live in a house where we have 7 TVs but I actually spend a very limited time watching them. HOWEVER there are still certain things which I do watch regularly and would miss. My internet connection also means it is not possible to watch high quality streams - I only watch South Park and Family Guy online regularly.
I have a laptop next to my bed which I tend to use to watch DVDs and stream a small number of shows, and watch a little on my 24" pc screen - this accounts for most of my viewing.
I do love sports so watch a lot of that on tv, and we tend to watch some cooking shows in the house. It's nice having sky films too as they sometimes have gems on there.
I'd miss not having a tv, but if my net connection was a little better I wouldn't be devastated.
I have a laptop next to my bed which I tend to use to watch DVDs and stream a small number of shows, and watch a little on my 24" pc screen - this accounts for most of my viewing.
I do love sports so watch a lot of that on tv, and we tend to watch some cooking shows in the house. It's nice having sky films too as they sometimes have gems on there.
I'd miss not having a tv, but if my net connection was a little better I wouldn't be devastated.
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Haven't had a TV since 2004 and if I want to watch a series I download it and watch it on my 30" monitor. I remember when I used to watch the soaps, ewww.
BS. a decent player will give you a better picture. high bit rates, better colours and better motion. my BDP is a better picture than my ps3 and PC (see gfx card in sig)
so you are saying a high level DVD player is no better than a £20 bush one?
No, I'm saying you have no idea what I'm talking about considering I mentioned source material and you're talking about hardware players.
No. It is odd, and it is a worse format. Unless you have the original un-transcoded transport stream from the original broadcast, the probability of which is extremely low unless you capped it yourself.
HDTV isn't even produced for transport over internet protocol, it is produced for transport over DVB standards. HDTV is always transcoded to more compressible formats for transport through internet protocol (such as H264), therefore immediately losing quality, and ultimately your argument of HDTV over IP being "better quality" goes straight out of the window due to this fact.
Also, I just put on Dr Who on iPlayer HD and it's not even 1080i, don't know where you got full HD from.
iPlayer is showing 1280x720 at a bitrate of 2.8Mb/s. BBC through HDTV (DVB-C/S) is about 10Mb/s at 1920x1080i. Some HDTV channels have bitrates over 15Mb/s.
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At home i have no TV, no internet, no computer.
I find it very refreshing to get away from technology. I do what i need to do at work, go in 30 minutes early, sort my private things, and then when i get home i can step away from the un-needed things in life.
Does anyone else do this?
Just so you know at home i draw and read, ive been like this for over 1 year and im 23 living on my own. The cost isn't even an issue, its a choice.
I find it very refreshing to get away from technology. I do what i need to do at work, go in 30 minutes early, sort my private things, and then when i get home i can step away from the un-needed things in life.
Does anyone else do this?
Just so you know at home i draw and read, ive been like this for over 1 year and im 23 living on my own. The cost isn't even an issue, its a choice.
When I'm on holiday it is refreshing to only have a tablet or laptop for a quick browse on the internet and then be able to get on doing other things instead of being tempted to sit on the computer chair and stay there for hours or end up watching a program for an hour or two. Not sure I could do it 24/7 for years on end but I'd like to see if I could go a month or so without technology other than the aforementioned laptop or tablet for school work and the occasional browse on Youtube and here etc.
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I think you confused the point somewhat yourself.
He's right, though. A high quality dedicated player will run circles around a PC-based drive and a software player, even if they're both playing exactly the same disc utilising exactly the same source material.
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Try it for a month
As said, sort the things you need to sort out at work/school, then when you get home just relax. Put some CD's on (i do have a CD player) grab some paper, pens, paint, have a draw. Go get some books have a read. Do all the other things you have always wanted to do instead of being sat at the PC.
Its weird, but it really inspired me to do other things with my life, some of which im getting pretty damn good at now due to minimal distractions.
FYI i dont have a smartphone either, just a normal samsung bleh thing.
I do understand why people need it for a 30 minutes a day though. Any more isnt neccessary though.