Honestly, after a few hours, I find the picture quality "drop" for the notorious AXN channel.
As for sport channels, the pic is also worse...
For other news, movies, I find it better though.
I found that the overall signal, including AXN and ESPN, improved significantly for digital signal in other countries in the region. As such, I think this is the problem of cable TV provider in Thailand, ie UBC, that CAN be improved if they want to do it.
Analog seems to give better pic with the "ghost" effect. For Digital, it turns to be "blocks"...which is equivalent to a poor VCD quality...I believe smaller TV would not have a problem. My dad's Sony 34" is even better!
What I find about projection TV is that it is extremely sensitive to signal and adjustment. I replaced video splitter from what the cable company provided to the one I bought from outside at Circuit City in the US (I used AR which is equivalent to Ultralink or Monster) and the picture improved significantly, particularly the picture noise.
Also, try to use the most direct signal path to your projection at the expense of 34 inch as I believe direct view suffered relatively less vs. projection TV. If possible, no line cut/splitter between your projection TV and source. Use high quality TV cable for projection TV.
I mean, for projection TV, a little adjustment means a "lot" and things you previously thought that they are not important become significant and very important for larger and projection type screen TV.
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the fact that you can confirm the next show (as you know that the handbook is never accurate!).
That's the benefit of digital TV that you get a more interactive or up to date things. Wait until broadband TV becomes reality in Thailand and you even get much more fun.
It's my understanding that Hong Kong will probably be the first country in this region that broadcasts HDTV via broadband TV, as early as end 2006/early 2007. Currently, broadband TV in Hong Kong is at standard definition with little interactive, ie you can subscribe/buy pay per view that you
, the same as you paid it in the hotel.
By that time, the speed of broadband internet should reach up to 25Mbps vs an average max speed of 6Mbps at the moment. I'm talking about the speed that you and me could afford to pay, not something
I saw in Thailand, ie 2Mbps at Bt10,000+???.
I was told that contect providers are ready to offer such high resolution signal but I don't know who the content provider is... Anyway, I was told that the HDTV will be sent out in MPEG-4 format...
I have little knowledge about this but I'm not sure that MPEG-4 format has anything to do with HDTV in the US??? So, this could be another 'faked' HDTV, a la confusing term of progressive scan we had in the past.
