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I also can't help but think you are trying to impress the wife with
completely the wrong things - IME cooking dinner and a bunch of flowers
gets me far more sex than showing her just what a difference there is
between 5.1 and 7.1 surround ;-)

women eh! 7.1 surround would get me in the sack faster than you could
say HD Ready!
Re flowers - my better half would only suspect I'd bought another
cable.

My projector is only 720x1280 - bit disapointed now I know
there's1080p out there.
Is 720p much crisper than the standard DVD I'm now looking at -
Cambridge Audio 80's Series player.
I read some DVD's are outputting 720p anyway without being HD - is
this true and if so by upgrading to the Toshiba am I not going to see
a difference.

You can get various DVD players that will upscale normal DVDs. Although
I definitely noticed an improvement in picture quality, general
consensus seems to be the improvement may be as much to do with the
upscaling process on whatever you're watching it on rather than the DVD
player.

Last question - if I got the Sky/Ntl HD box - are all channels in HD?
- even BBC 1 will be 720p all of the time?
I thought it was just the odd thing that was HD like that Planet Earth
thing and even that was just a test.

No idea about NTL, but with Sky, you get the BBC test channel, which
broadcasts stuff from in the evenings, mostly consisting of stuff like
Planet Earth, Bleak House, Torchwood etc... They do occasionally show
new stuff, simultaneously with BBC1. They did with Planet Earth and they
will apparently do so next week with the new series of Hotel Babylon.
They also show any BBC football matches in HD (FA Cup, England games).

On Sky, off the top of my head, in HD you get, Sky One HD (lots of US
imports in HD, the likes of 24, Lost, Deadwood, Bones, Las Vegas etc...)
with a lot of it in DD 5.1 too, they also seem to show non-HD stuff
upscaled.

You also get Artsworld, History Channel, Nat Geographic and a few
others, which I can't remember at the moment.

If you subscribe to any other than the basic packages, you can get Sky
Movies 9 & 10. All in HD, with DD 5.1.


If I can watch any football match or Film Four in HD on my projector
(720p) I may be tempted to subscribe.

If you subscribe to Sky Sports you get to watch any football match they
show in HD with DD5.1. Sky Sports HD 1& 2 shows all sorts of stuff in
HD, football, cricket, rugby, even the Super Bowl last weekend.

Then there are the HD Box Office channels, if you want those.

No Film Four HD though.

Rumours abound that Sky will be dropping the additional £10 fee for HD,
whether this is a) actually true or b) just for subscribers of 'X'
number of premium channels, like the Sky+ fee, remains to be seen.

Personally, I think Sky HD is good value. It may not be for everyone,
but the main issue with it for me, is the Sky HD box having only 160gb
of available recording stuff, I tend to fill it up very quickly :-)
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Sean Black