Luke Siemaszko wrote:

......but for £100 it will look rubbish. You get what you pay for.

It won't look any worse than a regular TV signal will. Oh wait, you DID
say it will look rubbish. :-)

No matter how you do it, a 525 line picture is not going to look good
on a large screen TV. PAL TV signals are 625 line, something has to be done
to either squish the picture or chop off a 1/12th of it at the top and bottom.

Digital signal processing such as line doublers, etc, are just going to
make things worse.

If the TV does have a computer connection or DVI input, you can buy a cheap
PC with a DVD drive and enjoy the view.

If you get a good enough TV card and fast enough processor, you can get
decent pictures out of it from off the air signals. Nothing like U.S.
HDTV and it isn't going to cost 100 UKP.

I look at it as the choice is to try to sell the TV to someone who doesn't
know the difference (which may be imoral IMHO) or spend 100 UKP to
use it. He's already bought the thing, moved it to the U.K., paid any
taxes due on it etc. Another 100 UKP for to make it useable is better
than putting out on the street.......

Geoff.

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