Boston Legal in 1080i Tonight!

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#20626 1-Apr-2008 12:20

Just got an email from freeview shop. Boston Legal will be in HD tonight!

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#120171 1-Apr-2008 12:34

Pity that virtually no one can watch it in HD..

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#120173 1-Apr-2008 12:40

Hmmm. MY HDMI output from the PC doesn't use the whole LCD resolution, so I am using DVI -> VGA (1360 pixel wide). I wonder if we will see any improvement when using this setup.

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#120186 1-Apr-2008 13:07

old3eyes: Pity that virtually no one can watch it in HD..

A good collection of people on this forum will be watching it ... me included.

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#120189 1-Apr-2008 13:17

I'll be watching!

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#120194 1-Apr-2008 13:42

I'm still struggling with WAF so this might help......some of my problem is the analogue tuner in our panasonic 37" is actually pretty impressive, so it seems only me can see the difference another $2k on the HTPC has made. Rest of the family think it's a waste of time - grrrr

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#120195 1-Apr-2008 13:44

Move the couch a foot from the TV ... that'll swing it ...

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#120213 1-Apr-2008 14:26

ajst2duk:
I'm still struggling with WAF so this might help......some of my problem is the analogue tuner in our panasonic 37" is actually pretty impressive, so it seems only me can see the difference another $2k on the HTPC has made. Rest of the family think it's a waste of time - grrrr

Surely the fact the analogue can only deliver a 4:3 picture vs true 16:9 is a fairly obvious difference?

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#120214 1-Apr-2008 14:36

sbiddle:
ajst2duk:
I'm still struggling with WAF so this might help......some of my problem is the analogue tuner in our panasonic 37" is actually pretty impressive, so it seems only me can see the difference another $2k on the HTPC has made. Rest of the family think it's a waste of time - grrrr

Surely the fact the analogue can only deliver a 4:3 picture vs true 16:9 is a fairly obvious difference?

Are you married? you'd be supprised at what a wife can miss - especially when the "better" version costs money :-) I think it could have something to do with men being "visual" (thats why p0rn was invented) vs. women who are into feelings and sh1t (Thats why mills&boon was invented).

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#120217 1-Apr-2008 14:41

Yesterday the Mac mini wouldn't boot - it worked after a reset, but The Wife wasn't happy...

She says that everything goes through this computer so if it fails it's no good. According to her view, if a DVD player fails we can still watch TV and getting a replacement DVD player would be cheaper/quicker.

No way for her to understand that the large LCD is also a point of failure and like the Mac mini not something to replace quickly or fix quickly...

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#120221 1-Apr-2008 14:53

freitasm: Yesterday the Mac mini wouldn't boot - it worked after a reset, but The Wife wasn't happy...

She says that everything goes through this computer so if it fails it's no good. According to her view, if a DVD player fails we can still watch TV and getting a replacement DVD player would be cheaper/quicker.

No way for her to understand that the large LCD is also a point of failure and like the Mac mini not something to replace quickly or fix quickly...

sounds like permission to buy a second one to make it redundant :D

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#120222 1-Apr-2008 15:00

Doesn't she read geekzone?

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#120225 1-Apr-2008 15:28

Ha ha Suckers! My wife insisted that I upgrade the Media PC! She loves it!

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#120242 1-Apr-2008 16:16

mcraenz: Ha ha Suckers! My wife insisted that I upgrade the Media PC! She loves it!

Are you coming to the Geekzone Pizza evening? I am sure a few of us will meet you there and get this "suckers" comments out of this thread...

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#120244 1-Apr-2008 16:26

Crikey McRae - how did you manage that! Now if I can just get your wife to talk to my wife....

On a more pragmatic note, have you got an EPG source bound to DVB-T so that we can setup Boston Legal for recording in MP? I have tried "combining" TV3 DVB-T with Sky TV3 but its not having the desired effect?

Cheers Mike

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#120246 1-Apr-2008 16:33

Are you running one of the later SVNs that has my "EPG Only" patch? If so check out the write up I did in the wiki.
If you're still having trouble come ask in the NZ MP thread so we don't get too OT :)

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