[quote user="BenjaminHart"]
Once I was looking at tvs in Currys (I think) and asked one of the staff why the picture quality on most of the sets was so terrible (it really was goddamn awful!) and he said that they were showing a demo dvd which had "worn out" over time.
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Ah yes, that old problem of DVDs wearing out. We've all experienced that!
[quote user="BenjaminHart"]
If I ran a store I would have all the tvs showing their
absolute best. I mean, what's the point in having 'HD Ready' logos
everywhere when the sets are just showing rubbish standard-def, which
is distributed to each of the tvs in such a bad way that it causes
quite astonishingly bad levels of image quality. If I had tvs on
display in my store that were supposed to be displaying Freeview, I
would actually have the tvs showing a standard-def channel (one that is
available on Freeview of course) from a Sky HD box, via HDMI, and sent
through a video upscaler with HQV.[/quote]
You'd think, wouldn't you...?