"I just download it, all the films and TV shows that are in HD come onto the net moving slightly towards bandwidth friendly x264 especially watching "The Thing" in 1080p, right cool!"
Err, you've not quite grasped this... no TV shows broadcast in 1080p, there simply isn't the bandwidth there to do so, so anything you download will be being upscaled to 1080p by your TV, this is NOT HD... just because a downloaded film came from a HD source, unless it's in its native size, which i recall is approximately 12Gb per hour of show then you're watching a compressed variant anyway.
Personally i'd like HD, have the set to do it (and the HD DVD player to play DVD's) but i don't watch a huge amount of TV so won't lose any sleep over it. I can record my Freeview channels i want and that provides me with plenty to watch, so the only real reason i'd get Sky (which i won't) is to watch the rugby, and given their coverage of the Guinness Premiership is so poor, i really shan't bother. Sky HD revolves so heavily around that pointless thing that is football, it's actually a good reason to not get it IMHO!
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"I just download it, all the films and TV shows that are in HD come onto the net moving slightly towards bandwidth friendly x264 especially watching "The Thing" in 1080p, right cool!"
Err, you've not quite grasped this... no TV shows broadcast in 1080p, there simply isn't the bandwidth there to do so, so anything you download will be being upscaled to 1080p by your TV, this is NOT HD... just because a downloaded film came from a HD source, unless it's in its native size, which i recall is approximately 12Gb per hour of show then you're watching a compressed variant anyway.
Personally i'd like HD, have the set to do it (and the HD DVD player to play DVD's) but i don't watch a huge amount of TV so won't lose any sleep over it. I can record my Freeview channels i want and that provides me with plenty to watch, so the only real reason i'd get Sky (which i won't) is to watch the rugby, and given their coverage of the Guinness Premiership is so poor, i really shan't bother. Sky HD revolves so heavily around that pointless thing that is football, it's actually a good reason to not get it IMHO!