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dilipbalakrishnan

Hi friends. Yesterday I got Big TV South Indian connection (Rs.2,190). Number of channels : 155 + 32 exclusive cinema channels + 10 Radio channels. The only problem is that I am getting only 9 Malayalam Channels (Asianet, Asianet Plus, Asianet News, Surya, Kiran, Kairali, Amrutha, Manorama News and DD Malayalam). I was getting 11 Malayalam Channels on my Dish TV and Sun Direct is giving 15 channels. Expecting more channels like Indiavision, Kairali People, Kairali we, Jaihind and Jeevan TV. But the excellent Video and Audio quality compensates for this. Tata sky and Dish TV is not at all comparable. Some one who is having an LCD TV and planning to purchase DTH, just go for BIG TV.
Dileep.B

tovarunvs

Hi Friend,

Is it the complete list of Malayalam channels (9Channels)? How is their service so far and are you using this in Kerala? I am also planning to take same 2190 pack in Trivandrum.

Also many people commented that Big TV is not looking good in LCD. Please share your experience with LCD and other DTH services.

Thanks, Varun

kartee_g

Hi tovarunvs,

I am a LCD user. I am viewing the BIG TV in my 32'' LCD (samsung series 4) panel. Initially I Had some problem with the picture quality. But its because of settings problem. Now I callibrated the setting and getting a very good picture clarity.

But I really don't know how the clarity is with the other DTH providers. I tried only with BIG..

Moreover I thought of connecting the LCD with the component cable instead of normal AV connector. Heard it will give more quality picture.... Let me try and tell u soon...

Reg,

Karthik

just4kix

Component (Y-Cb-Cr) should provide better quality.

Let us say we have a device (e.g. Blu-Ray player) that can output signals up to 1080p. Such a device will have Composite (Yellow-White-Red) or Normal AV output, component (Y-Cb-Cr) output and HDMI output. Assuming that a Blu-Ray disc is playing on the player. This is what will happen:

Situation 1: Connected to full HD LCD TV (1080p) via Composite AV cable
Effect: The true HD (1080p) source signal will be dowscaled to 480p by the player and sent to TV as such. Since the native resolution of the TV is 1080p, the signal will be upconverted to 1080p and displayed. So there is a servere loss of quality even though you are getting HD.

Analyze this. You clicked a photograph with a 8mp camera. The native picture is 8mp. Using Photoshop or any other software, you created a copy of the photo that is scaled down for display with web pages (e.g., albums on this forum). Now if you blow this photograph to the original size again, you will get severe loss. Same thing will happen here.

Situation 2: Connected to full HD LCD TV (1080p) via Component cable
Effect: The true HD (1080p) source signal will be dowscaled to 720p by the player and sent to TV as such. Since the native resolution of the TV is 1080p, the signal will be upconverted to 1080p and displayed. So there is a some loss of quality even though you are getting HD; same as the situation 1 but less pronouced.

Situation 3: Connected to full HD LCD TV (1080p) via HDMI cable
Effect: The true HD (1080p) source signal will not downscaled and will displayed as true HD.

Situation 4: Connected to 720p LCD TV (1080p) via Composite AV cable
Effect: The true HD (1080p) source signal will be dowscaled to 480p by the player and sent to TV as such. Since the native resolution of the TV is 720p, the signal will be upconverted to 720p and displayed. So there is a some loss of quality even though you are getting HD.

Situation 5: Connected to 720p LCD TV (1080p) via Component cable
Effect: The true HD (1080p) source signal will be dowscaled to 720p by the player and sent to TV as such. Since the native resolution of the TV is 720p, the signal displayed as is. Although there is a some loss of quality because of downscaling you will not feel it because you have never experienced true HD on your TV.

Situation 6: Connected to full HD LCD TV (1080p) via Composite AV cable
Effect: The true HD (1080p) source signal will not downscaled and will sent as is. But because your TV is 720p, it will downscale it to 720p. But you will not realize any difference. In fact you will find this source better that a 720p source.

(If you find that my analysis is incorrect, please correct me. If you like my post, repo me )

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kartee_g

Hi just4kix,

It is very impressive. Thanks for your effort. But for me the situation 1 and 6 seems to be same but you have given different description..... Please correct me if i understood worng.

Reg,

Kartz

Hi just4kix,

What is 1080p and 720p is it pixels??? How to find this??????? Mine is Samsung LA32A450C1. and contrast ratio is 30000:1 and the resolution is 1366 x 768. It is mentioned as HD LCD TV only....

Whether mine is Full HD or not???


Reg,

Kartz

tovarunvs

Hi Karthik,

Thanks for letting us knows that BigTV is is very good in LCD!!! Otherwise how good is the service ? Are you getting the channels without trouble ? Are you using this in Kerala?

Thanks, Varun

just4kix

Hi kartee_g,

Situations 1 to 6 are completely different from each other. Read them carefully.

Some more facts are on these posts:
1. http://www.indiabroadband.net/home-a...ional-crt.html (The TV debate - LCD vs Plasma vs Traditional CRT)
2. http://www.indiabroadband.net/home-a...de-lcd-tv.html (Buying guide to LCD TV)

720p and 1080p
Every TV has a native resolution. Your TV's resolution is 1366 x 768. Also your TV is capable of progressive scan. This resolution classifies as 720p. In contrast, a large screen TV may have a resolution of 1980x1080 with progressive - this TV will classify as 1080p.

Your TV is not true/full HD. A true HD TV will be 1080p.

As per Samsung, the dynamic contrast ratio of your TV is 10,000:1 (taken from Samsug site). However, dynamic contrast is all humbug - it is a totally non-scientific and unproven method. The correct measure is true contrast which will be more like 3000:1.