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Why do most women not care about HD

Tue Apr 17, 2012 3:32 am

Has anyone else noticed that he majority of women do not give a crap if they watch there stupid shows in SD when its available in HD?
I am constantly putting the hd channel on for them and pointing out how much better it looks but they do not seem to care.
And by stupid shows i mean house wives of whatever and so on,I can be asleep for 30 minutes and if my wife put one of those shows on with those rich women arguing and yelling at each other it wakes me up instantly....and thats with me snoring:)Wife still asks how do you know.
My answer is simple how can any man sleep with women arguing in my dreams.
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Re: Why do most women not care about HD

Tue Apr 17, 2012 3:57 am

Well these shows are so stupid that you don't need better video. Imho sending that BS in HD is just a glorious waste of bandwidth. And watching them kills your brain cells. Get your poor wife another hobby!
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Re: Why do most women not care about HD

Tue Apr 17, 2012 7:08 am

vargis14 wrote:
Has anyone else noticed that he majority of women do not give a crap if they watch there stupid shows in SD when its available in HD?
I am constantly putting the hd channel on for them and pointing out how much better it looks but they do not seem to care.
And by stupid shows i mean house wives of whatever and so on,I can be asleep for 30 minutes and if my wife put one of those shows on with those rich women arguing and yelling at each other it wakes me up instantly....and thats with me snoring:)Wife still asks how do you know.
My answer is simple how can any man sleep with women arguing in my dreams.



I don't think it's limited just to women. If the content is interesting to the viewer he will try to watch it any way he can.

The problem you face is rather that she likes and watches shows that you don't find intesting. But hey, what the [f] do i know?
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Re: Why do most women not care about HD

Tue Apr 17, 2012 7:37 am

Arclight wrote:
The problem you face is rather that she likes and watches shows that you don't find intesting. But hey, what the [f] do i know?

Which means I can crank the Netflix data rate to its bare minimum so as not to run into the Comcast cap.
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Re: Why do most women not care about HD

Tue Apr 17, 2012 8:06 am

Man this thread is just full of fail.

My wife likes HD, but it has more to do with the shape of the image than the clarity, though she doesn't mind stretching 4:3 content. That also makes me bonkers.
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Re: Why do most women not care about HD

Tue Apr 17, 2012 8:08 am

Why do some nerds insist on gender stereotyping? :roll:
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Re: Why do most women not care about HD

Tue Apr 17, 2012 8:24 am

bthylafh wrote:
Why do some nerds insist on gender stereotyping? :roll:


Probably for the same reason that some gender insists on nerd stereotyping. ;)
 
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Re: Why do most women not care about HD

Tue Apr 17, 2012 8:58 am

She probably cares, she just doesn't know it. Let her watch one episode in HD and then, immediately after, the next episode in SD. :D
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Re: Why do most women not care about HD

Tue Apr 17, 2012 9:03 am

... and why do most men care about HD?
 
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Re: Why do most women not care about HD

Tue Apr 17, 2012 9:17 am

Why do people have HD, then watch Netflix, YouTube, and Hulu on it? So they can better see the compression artifacts?
 
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Re: Why do most women not care about HD

Tue Apr 17, 2012 9:21 am

I just can't see paying extra for HD. Also, my TV is too old to properly support it. I guess my nerd score is lower as a result. I appreciate watching HD sports at friend's houses, but that's about it.
 
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Re: Why do most women not care about HD

Tue Apr 17, 2012 9:22 am

liquidsquid wrote:
Why do people have HD, then watch Netflix, YouTube, and Hulu on it? So they can better see the compression artifacts?

Because the 100+ hours of HD content on the TiVo aren't what they want to watch right now.

Nothing irks me more than to come downstairs and find the TV on Netflix instead of chewing through their TiVo backlog. Don't even ask what happens when the TiVo wants both tuners to record something that won't be watched for 6 months or so.
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Re: Why do most women not care about HD

Tue Apr 17, 2012 9:26 am

Anarchist wrote:
... and why do most men care about HD?


My guess is the most people don't. Either you have some kind of interest and knowledge, from which perspective you will probably always care that the image could be so much better. Or you don't, and you just take it for what it is...
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Re: Why do most women not care about HD

Tue Apr 17, 2012 9:57 am

Every time I go to my mom's house she is watching channel 8. I explain to her that channel 808 has the same shows but in HD. It just never penetrates her brain or something because she still just watches channel 8. She has a nice new 46" Sony lcd tv.

I shouldn't care one way or another, but I do. It's much like that feeling when I watch people Google "www.website.com" instead of just typing it into the address bar. GGGGAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHH
 
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Re: Why do most women not care about HD

Tue Apr 17, 2012 10:03 am

From my experience, I know about 3-6 people who'd care about it when the option's available. I don't think it's a women thing.
 
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Re: Why do most women not care about HD

Tue Apr 17, 2012 10:11 am

FubbHead wrote:
Anarchist wrote:
... and why do most men care about HD?


My guess is the most people don't. Either you have some kind of interest and knowledge, from which perspective you will probably always care that the image could be so much better. Or you don't, and you just take it for what it is...


Among the people I know, it's about 50/50. I think many people care more about the TV being large and thin than about the actual image quality.
 
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Re: Why do most women not care about HD

Tue Apr 17, 2012 10:21 am

I don't feel I am stereotypi g ,in my exspereince I have yet to see a male watch a tv show in Sd when he knows it's running simultaneously in hd. As for the women and girls I know it seems the sound is
More interesting then a pretty picture to them and they just don't care. Well at least I am not forced to watch it thank goodness I thInk I would shoot the tv after prolonged exsposure:)
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Re: Why do most women not care about HD

Tue Apr 17, 2012 10:30 am

Yeats wrote:
I think many people care more about the TV being large and thin than about the actual image quality.


Isn't it much more important to have a large screen than an HD picture? I would rather watch a SD movie on a projector than 4K-HD movie on a 24" screen. That having been said, image quality is a nice thing to have. I prefer to watch movies on Blu-Ray if possible.
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Re: Why do most women not care about HD

Tue Apr 17, 2012 10:36 am

liquidsquid wrote:
Why do people have HD, then watch Netflix, YouTube, and Hulu on it? So they can better see the compression artifacts?

I only have a 720p TV, so my experience may be different, but if everything is working correctly, there are WAY less compression artifacts via Netflix than my Comcast "HD" service. Netflix is so much clearer than the TV shows.
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Re: Why do most women not care about HD

Tue Apr 17, 2012 10:40 am

Best thing I remember reading in the Calvin & Hobbes Tenth Anniversary Book was Watterson's comment that good writing will save mediocre art more often than good art will save mediocre writing, but if a deadline forced him to run with a sub-par script, he would go for broke on the illustration. Similarly, there's a reason xkcd has a global fan base, and it isn't the stunning artistic quality of Randall Munroe's stick figures.

Shorter: if the TV show is worth watching, it's worth watching because it piques your interest. Sure, HD, 3D, sixty inches, and all of the other stuff is a nice value-add; and since I'm an A/V nerd, if I'm part of the audience then I'm going to flip on the stereo system and check for the correct output resolution and zoom to the correct aspect ratio. But otherwise, if someone else is trying to do their version of relaxing and doesn't find enough value-add to go looking for those features, stop bothering them during their show.
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Re: Why do most women not care about HD

Tue Apr 17, 2012 10:47 am

Yeah, I don't think it's a woman thing. If anything it's just more of a habit thing. I think I find my mom watching the HD more than my dad.

I finally got my parents to default their choices to the HD channels at their house. Instead of 12, my dad now watches 2012!
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Re: Why do most women not care about HD

Tue Apr 17, 2012 11:23 am

The channels that would truly be even better "experience"-wise would be sports games. Makes you see a punch, a touchdown, a homerun, a buzzer-beater 3pointer, a long-range goal, a superb rally, a hole-in-one, etc. even better.
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Re: Why do most women not care about HD

Tue Apr 17, 2012 11:28 am

TurtlePerson2 wrote:
Yeats wrote:
I think many people care more about the TV being large and thin than about the actual image quality.


Isn't it much more important to have a large screen than an HD picture? I would rather watch a SD movie on a projector than 4K-HD movie on a 24" screen. That having been said, image quality is a nice thing to have. I prefer to watch movies on Blu-Ray if possible.


That's kind of extreme, you are comparing very large vs very small. A more appropriate comparison would be would you rather watch a 4k HD movie on a 52" LCD or SD on a projector?

I'm perfectly fine with a good DVD on my Oppo player, my TV is only 32".
 
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Re: Why do most women not care about HD

Tue Apr 17, 2012 12:03 pm

derFunkenstein wrote:
liquidsquid wrote:
Why do people have HD, then watch Netflix, YouTube, and Hulu on it? So they can better see the compression artifacts?

I only have a 720p TV, so my experience may be different, but if everything is working correctly, there are WAY less compression artifacts via Netflix than my Comcast "HD" service. Netflix is so much clearer than the TV shows.

It probably depends on the ISP, I know with my small-town wireless ISP (who is likely doing little-to-no network management) Netflix in it's top HD mode is pretty clear and devoid of artifacts on my 1080p TV. A year ago when I lived in town the "HD" cable was horrifically overcompressed.
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Re: Why do most women not care about HD

Tue Apr 17, 2012 12:13 pm

Yeats wrote:
TurtlePerson2 wrote:
Yeats wrote:
I think many people care more about the TV being large and thin than about the actual image quality.


Isn't it much more important to have a large screen than an HD picture? I would rather watch a SD movie on a projector than 4K-HD movie on a 24" screen. That having been said, image quality is a nice thing to have. I prefer to watch movies on Blu-Ray if possible.


That's kind of extreme, you are comparing very large vs very small. A more appropriate comparison would be would you rather watch a 4k HD movie on a 52" LCD or SD on a projector?

I'm perfectly fine with a good DVD on my Oppo player, my TV is only 32".


It's true in general though. I watched a movie in 1080P at a friend's house on his 40-something inch television and found it not to be a good viewing experience because I'm used to an 8-foot screen at home.
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Re: Why do most women not care about HD

Tue Apr 17, 2012 12:44 pm

My wife couldn't even tell the difference between stretched NTSC and 720p. I was dumbfounded. Then hockey season rolled around and her beloved Red Wings were on in both formats, so when I switched the game to HD she went "oooooohhhhh.....". HD ever since. Hockey really sucks in low-def.

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Re: Why do most women not care about HD

Tue Apr 17, 2012 1:04 pm

TurtlePerson2 wrote:
It's true in general though. I watched a movie in 1080P at a friend's house on his 40-something inch television and found it not to be a good viewing experience because I'm used to an 8-foot screen at home.


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Re: Why do most women not care about HD

Tue Apr 17, 2012 1:07 pm

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Hockey really sucks in low-def.


I think the NHL really missed the boat in the USA with not being HD-ready early on. I'm only a casual fan, but I've heard for years that the games are great in person, but suck on TV because it's hard to follow the damn puck in SD. As soon as HD got decent consumer market acceptance, the NHL should have been there with mega HD cams at every game.
 
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Re: Why do most women not care about HD

Tue Apr 17, 2012 1:54 pm

I think the problem with hockey went beyond definition. The puck is small. You're right that made it easy to lose in SD. However, the puck also moves fast through most of the game. Early HD sets, LCD's in particular, tended to have lots of pixel and lag, so the puck almost disappeared. Combined with the fact that it often is obscured by a player or the near edge of the rink, and the game did not work on older tv's. I will say this, though: Sluggo's wife is right -- Go Wings!
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Re: Why do most women not care about HD

Tue Apr 17, 2012 2:09 pm

Cuhulin wrote:
I think the problem with hockey went beyond definition. The puck is small. You're right that made it easy to lose in SD. However, the puck also moves fast through most of the game. Early HD sets, LCD's in particular, tended to have lots of pixel and lag, so the puck almost disappeared. Combined with the fact that it often is obscured by a player or the near edge of the rink, and the game did not work on older tv's. I will say this, though: Sluggo's wife is right -- Go Wings!

That's why they had that experiment with the blue and red streaks. Great comedy material for Canadian outlets on how non-Canadians can't follow the puck/action. :lol:

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