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Originally Posted by ahardie
Pretty much how I feel about it.
I didn't expect upscaling to look as good as it did on my plasma. I know that to my eyes the picture is perfectly acceptable although not quite as sharp as HD. I wonder how many people really enjoy programmes more in HD than good upscaled pq. It's nothing like the difference between colour and B&W. Nor is it like listening to poor quality audio, as opposed to hifi where the distortion can actually be fatigueing.
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This is all correct. Broadcast HD really isn't all that great. It's considerably better than upscaled SD, of course, but it's not even close to the "looking out the window" effect some people describe. You will mostly notice a difference on text, such as scoreboards, credits and that sort of thing, which looks much more clearly defined than on SD. Where you can really see a difference is with high quality source material, such as (some) video games and BluRay movies, although most low and mid-range sets aren't really good enough to make HD worthwhile anyway, regardless of the source.