Re: Is It Me Or Are The Hi-Def Demos In Comet Etc. Useless?


"Roger R" <telstar461703@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> "Tricky Dicky" <tricky@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Following the thread on the perceived lack of take-up with Hi-Def -
> is it
>> any wonder when Comet, Currys et al are doing such a crap job of
>> demonstrating it.
>>
>> Either my eyesight is really really bad or the so called hi-def
> content
>> being played on the hi-def ready televisions is, er, not very hi-def
>
> On a previous occasion when HD sets were first being introduced I
> asked the assistant about it. He said he'd been sent on a training
> exercise at the main superstore but didn't think much of HDTV.
>
> He put the demo on for me and the picture was very poor quality. When
> I asked how it was connected he said the DVD player was connected to
> the HDTV by an ordinary composite video (NOT component) cable -the
> sort with yellow for video and red and white for audio L,R.
>
> When I commented that it gave a rather poor impression of the HD
> quality, he said it was perfectly good enough for most customers.
>
> Just to update that anecdote, yesterday I went to PC World where they
> had a special display section for large size -32 inch Samsung HDTV
> TV's. The set on demo was connected to the featured special DVD
> player using the new mpeg4 standard. The picture on the set was
> terrible- worse than something shot with an old VHS camcorder and
> played out from a VHS tape.
>
> The assistant was not competent to discuss the equipment or set up
> and, though I never spoke to him about it, the store manager was
> apparently perfectly happy with the display as he did nothing about
> it.
>
> This was in sharp contrast to my local independant retailer who has
> both the HD demo from Astra and the HD demo set up by Panasonic using
> the rec-pot high quality HDD player. The Panasonic is outstanding.
>
> Why set manufacturers allow the retail chains to denigrate their
> equipment in the way they do I cannot imagine.


Do you think they know their equipment is being shown in such a poor light?

I don't recall this happening with DVD - the demonstrations being conducted
in Comet etc. seemed to be okay from what I remember - saying that though it
was not until I watched the Matrix at my local independent dealer did I put
my money down

Tricky


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