It was round to the 'Mother in Laws' for tea on 'New Years Day'. She has just got a 'Freeview HD' TV, so I was playing with that in the afternoon before the other guests arrived. I noticed a few things about this format, that shows it is not flawless. Whilst watching 'Downton Abbey' on 'ITV HD', the first thing you notice is that the picture clarity is good.(Remember these TV's upscale ordinary broadcasts to 1080p so picture all round is pretty fine on standard channels). In 'HD' however. The broadcast standard is1080i, and is only 50hz, where the TV is 100hz. This seems to make the lovely 'HD' pictures look like they are running a frame a second faster so in some scenes the characters walk like an old 'Chaplin' film.
The rest of the week has been taken up with 'Darts'. This is the proper 'BDO' championship on 'BBC', and not the 'Sky' funded 'PDC'. I have One major gripe about this sport, and that is the 'experts' always say the same cliched mumblings 'If he turns up',' he is in form but this is a big tournament, 'a nice lad but'.
The only other things I have watched this week are:
The Incredible Hulk (2008) film on 'ITV'
'Channel 4s' 'Awfully good TV'. It is a shame that the nearly all of the clips had been seen on similar shows in the past.
I managed to watch a 'DVD' of 'The Bank Job' starring 'Jason Statham'. I was amazed that he could be in a whole film, and only be involved in One punch up.
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