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Wow. It's been awhile I guess. I suppose I'm used to watching at least 1080p content, sometimes UHD content. I attached an old blu-ray player; just to test function, I inserted a formerly familiar DVD (Stargate). Incredible we were ever satisfied with such horrible picture quality. "Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it." L.Tolstoy "A government is just a body of people, usually, notably, ungoverned." Shepherd Book | ||
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The Unmanned Writer |
Lol - i have 480p version of Top Gun and Tombstone. More grain a full silo. Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. "If dogs don't go to Heaven, I want to go where they go" Will Rogers The definition of the words we used, carry a meaning of their own... | |||
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Yea, some old TV shows on YouTube look awful. Generally, we were viewing on much smaller screens... Like blowing up a low res photo to a much larger size. Also, could it be some resampling, upscaling of non native resolutions making them worse??? Collecting dust. | |||
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The cake is a lie! |
It might look better on a CRT monitor. | |||
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| Evil Asian Member |
I'm the opposite. I watch a lot of older movies, especially horror and exploitation B-movies from the '60s to the '80s. I'm used to them looking kinda faded with grain and film scratches, like Tarantino and Rodriguez intentionally added to their Grindhouse movies. Companies like Shout Factory and Vinegar Syndrome are releasing these vintage cult movies all cleaned up with 4K transfers and they just look too sharp and colorful. They look like modern movies—it feels kinda wrong. Like, the first time I saw Night of the Living Dead was a faded scratchy hissy public domain print on a late night PBS station. To see it crystal clear in HD takes some of the creepy atmosphere away from it. | |||
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A Grateful American |
You want bad? Pop in a copy of a movie you recorded on VHS from the early 80s... "the meaning of life, is to give life meaning" ✡ Ani Yehudi אני יהודי Le'olam lo shuv לעולם לא שוב! | |||
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Seeker of Clarity |
I noticed that as well recently. I'm guessing it was because we were watching on a 36" CRT "big screen" and not a GIGANTIC flat screen.  | |||
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I Deal In Lead |
We were satisfied with the quality because we'd never seen anything better, so it was outstanding...at the time. Kind like when everyone knew that nobody would ever need more than 1MB of hard drive. | |||
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quarter MOA visionary |
^^^ Exactly I like the old movies, TV shows (especially the Westerns) to be in B&W. Of course they are in lower res as well. I despise the transition period of the the mid 60's when they went to color. I can't imagine watching the Rifleman, Maverick or early Gunsmoke in color.  Of course new high res stuff is awesome. Just replaced an 12 year old Samsung 1080P Plasma with a new Samsung Nano QLED 8K. Spectacular but it need the right content and blown up old SD is only meh - those are just as good on an old set - on any set really. | |||
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Fighting the good fight |
Yep. Lower resolutions look better on CRT displays, due to their method of displaying the image using more loosely spaced lines instead of closely packed individual pixels, plus the smaller screen size overall. | |||
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Fire begets Fire |
It’s called NTSC "Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay - and claims a halo for his dishonesty." ~Robert A. Heinlein | |||
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Spread the Disease |
Try watching a VHS cassette. I used to have 5 channels over an antenna (NOT an HD one). Good times! ________________________________________ -- Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past me I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. -- | |||
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eh-TEE-oh-clez |
Bruh, 480p was an upgrade for most people in the DVD era. Most people didn't have the required RGB cables for 480p. 99 percent of DVD players shipped with the single Yellow cord for video, and red/white for audio. 480 interlaced, baby. | |||
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His Royal Hiney |
I treated myself this year to a 4K UHD Samsung TV. I was surprised how clear the pockmarks on actors' faces are. "It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946. | |||
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| I Deal In Lead |
AKA, never twice the same color. | |||
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| Fire begets Fire |
Good one !!! "Pacifism is a shifty doctrine under which a man accepts the benefits of the social group without being willing to pay - and claims a halo for his dishonesty." ~Robert A. Heinlein | |||
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| Ignored facts still exist |
At some point in next several years the broadcasters are going to be required to move to ATSC 3.0, AKA NextGen TV, which brings OTA TV to 4k. And will again force all of us OTA watchers to buy at least another set-top box since the present ATSC 1.0 will sunset. So, yes, we are really leaving 480p in the dust. And I'm afraid there's no good way to get those really old Johnny Carson episodes to look any better at the moment. FWIW, NTSC is not the same as 480p. NTSC is the old color interlaces analog (not digital) standard with 525 interlaced scan lines, not all of which were visible. There's NTSC, there's 480i and there's 480p. All different. About the only thing in common is roughly the same number of visible lines. . | |||
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