Talk:PALplus

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Doesn't Channel 4 still use PALplus on analogue terrestrial in the UK? I had one of the rare PALplus compatible TV's sold in Ireland and I seem to remember the Channel 4 picture being noticably better off aerial, and a quick Googling suggests that they used to use it.

Yes, I had one of these TVs in 1998 and the quality was close to HDTV, it was superb.

Whoa?? superb quality??? kidding, right? Not even HDTV 720p looks even close to 1080p. Let alone PalPlus which adds NO extra lines at all. Plain old 576. It's like saying that a 16:9 12" screen looks close to a 20" one.And the ironic thing: most broadcastings in PalPlus look like a plain zoomed 432line 16:9 image with blur in betwee lines - and I'm talking about a 100Hz PalPlus TVset. Why? because they are 432 line images. Even if the system works well (never seen one), most films are already converted to plain 432line 16:9 images, which gain no damn extra 144 lines by magic. In the end, we end with an even poorer image. --217.129.72.168 (talk) 05:02, 4 May 2008 (UTC)