There was, in fact, a Target not far away. However the typical little red wagon will itself fit in my car. This box would have needed a pretty big little red wagon.
By the way, watching The Walking Dead on this thing was pretty darned awesome.
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There was, in fact, a Target not far away. However the typical little red wagon will itself fit in my car. This box would have needed a pretty big little red wagon.
By the way, watching The Walking Dead on this thing was pretty darned awesome.
Many ongoing tv shows look really good at 1080p (or 1080i) resolution, whether on bluray or hd broadcast.
Recently I finished watching the season 1 bluray set of "Person of Interest", which looked spectacular. Way better looking than the season 1 dvd version, which came with the bluray combo package. (The bluray combo pack had 10 discs: 4 blurays and 6 dvds).
During this past summer and early fall, I watched through four seasons of Fringe on bluray, and Hawaii Five-0 and Nikita reruns on hd broadcasts.
Kinda hard to go back to watching standard resolution 480p/480i stuff (such as dvd), after watching 1080p/1080i hd resolution for awhile.
Some older tv shows and movies take some effort to upgrade to 1080p, such as the original Star Trek and the Next Generation (or the older James Bond movies). They went back and scanned in the original film reels at a really high resolution, and redid the special effects. The season 1 bluray set of The Next Generation looks spectacular.
More generally, I doubt many studios are willing to put in a lot money and effort into such extensive restoration, if there's very little to no demand for such a product. Such demand would usually come from either bluray releases and/or off-network syndication of the show in hd. (The Star Trek reruns I watch every day, appear to be the same hd restored versions as on the blurays).
Though at this point, it appears that there's very little to no demand for older tv shows on bluray. For that matter, many popular and/or ongoing tv shows are not released on bluray at all (such as the Law & Order franchise, Criminal Minds, Two and a Half Men, NCIS, CSI: Miami, CSI: NY, etc ...)
Kinda hard to go back to watching standard resolution 480p/480i stuff (such as dvd), after watching 1080p/1080i hd resolution for awhile.
I'm noting some interesting issues, though. For example, with an HD broadcast of an older movie, (Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, to be specific) the greenscreen effects become painfully apparent. On my old set, the characters and background came to my eye at the same resolution, because the limiting factor was my TV, not the film. But now, I note that the backgrounds are in poor resolution, compared to the foreground characters, which are far more sharp.
Definitely.
On some older movies, there's also noticeably more "grain" in the background (especially during darker scenes) in the 1080p version, which was not as apparent in the 480p/480i resolution.
For movies which didn't have extensive restoration jobs, some source limitations become more obvious at higher resolutions. I've noticed this in many older movies from the 70's, 80's and 90's, which didn't appear to have much restoration work done for the bluray versions.
This goes back to the point in how spectacular a particular older movie looks, may be highly dependent on how much effort was put into its restoration.
Some of the best restorations in 1080p resolution are titles like the older James Bond movies, and a few other ones like the original Star Wars trilogy (ignoring the additional plot changes), Blade Runner, etc ...
In the case of the older James Bond movies, the restorations were very extensive that the bluray versions look almost "timeless".
This goes back to the point in how spectacular a particular older movie looks, may be highly dependent on how much effort was put into its restoration.
Some of the best restorations in 1080p resolution are titles like the older James Bond movies, and a few other ones like the original Star Wars trilogy (ignoring the additional plot changes), Blade Runner, etc ...
In the case of the older James Bond movies, the restorations were very extensive that the bluray versions look almost "timeless".
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Kinda hard to go back to watching standard resolution 480p/480i stuff (such as dvd), after watching 1080p/1080i hd resolution for awhile.
I'm having a parallel problem with high-resolution computer screens: now that I use a hi-res iPhone, iPad, and MacBook all day, it's stunning how blurry and lousy the screens are that I've been using for the past decades. Crazy how fast the mind gets spoiled.
On the 3 foot problem:
Consider that he probably meant the front of the couch is 3 feet from the front of the TV.
The couch is likely 2' deep give or take. Therefore, his head is likely 5' away from TV
On the big TV box and a small car problem:
try thinking out of the box. literally.
take tht TV out of the box. throw away the box and the packing foam.
Odds are good the TV itself will fit (assuming it wasn't ridiculously huge, and simply a matter that it was a close fit.
Not ideal for your brand new TV, but technically a solution that will work.
Consider that he probably meant the front of the couch is 3 feet from the front of the TV.
The couch is likely 2' deep give or take. Therefore, his head is likely 5' away from TV
On the big TV box and a small car problem:
try thinking out of the box. literally.
take tht TV out of the box. throw away the box and the packing foam.
Odds are good the TV itself will fit (assuming it wasn't ridiculously huge, and simply a matter that it was a close fit.
Not ideal for your brand new TV, but technically a solution that will work.
That's fine. Recommended distance is still more like 10', and what I said about the viewing experience still applies.
I am not sure the thing would have fit in my car, even without the box. But, even if it had, doing this would likely have voided my warranty and/or service contract.
If I were moving big stuff around every couple of weeks, I would too.
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