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To think that women cannot 'see' HD?

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UtterFool · 26/05/2014 01:23

I was having dinner with friends and there was some banter about my mate's new HD TV.

When his wife is watching it he always walks in and makes a huge fuss about why she's not watching said programme in HD. Apparently she cannot tell the difference so I turned to my wife and asked if she could on ours, "I cannot tell the difference either" she says

I remember having the same conversation with another mate at work so am wondering if my huge sample size (of three) is representative of the entire female population?

Or perhaps some women just don't give two hoots about stuff that men get so hyped up about?

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Preciousbane · 26/05/2014 09:47

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BertieBotts · 26/05/2014 09:49

It was lighthearted :)

SadOldGit · 26/05/2014 09:54

OH moans when I am not watching HD - I can't tell difference (then again I have colour deficiency so maybe that affects it - however so does OH)

I just read OP to him - he sighed and muttered!

pineapplecrush · 26/05/2014 09:58

I can't. I like football and DH/DD/DS ask why i haven't got it on in HD, didn't know I hadn't and if i had, I wouldn't know although DH says difference is incredible.

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UtterFool · 26/05/2014 09:58

Phew thanks Bertie

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WhoKnowsWhereTheTimeGoes · 26/05/2014 09:59

Never seen it but I'm another surround sound hater, 3D hater, happy to listen to music on an Ipod dock and have no desire to use DH's stereo system with all it's gold cables, pre-amps etc so I'd fall into the don't care camp.

Mrsjayy · 26/05/2014 10:05

Yes recorcing hd takes up more space dont get me started on the husbands obsession with the space on the skybox the man twitches if it goes over 50%

Mrsjayy · 26/05/2014 10:06

Surround sound makes me jump imo it should only be for the cinema not a tiny livingroo

SpearmintLino · 26/05/2014 10:11

HD is Emperor's New Clothes shizzle. It's a conspiracy.

leeloo1 · 26/05/2014 10:16

"I bought a new system not so long ago and my heart sank when my wife put a comforting hand on my shoulder before telling me there was no difference between old and new."

This just made me giggle. I can just imagine it, so thanks for cheering up my morning OP.

fwiw I can see a difference when dh plays video games in HD. But he always tries to drag me to the bfi IMAX to see films in extra big HD and I can't really tell the difference then. :)

FraidyCat · 26/05/2014 10:18

I agree women's vision isn't any different, I think most just don't care. I too have walked into the room on countless occasions and found DW watching the "wrong" version of a channel, and not giving a toss when I point it out.

The difference is much more obvious with certain sports, rugby is especially painful to watch in SD (on a 50" screen viewed from seven feet.) The individual players viewed from a distance are just blurs on the screen.

Maybe the reason women care less is because fewer watch sports like rugby (and I suppose football) where the difference is the the most noticeable.

SD hurts my eyes so much that I'm pissed off that the Sky box doesn't automatically hide all SD channels that have an HD equivalent, and more importantly, only present me with the HD versions of all catch-up TV/downloads.

For those saying the can't tell the difference even when flicking back and forth, try sitting precisely two screen widths from the TV. So if you have a 50" TV, no further than eight feet away. There is no difference if you sit to far away/you screen is to small.

LadyOfLlangollen · 26/05/2014 10:21

Next time all of you HD doubters are in John Lewis just go and look at the HD TVs and then try saying you can't see a difference.

gamerchick · 26/05/2014 10:24

I can tell but I don't care either unless I'm playing a game where the difference is hugely obvious.. The husband will point out that I'm not, I'm glad to hear it's a husband thing

I have to have decent sound though... I detest using telly speakers with a passion.

Trollsworth · 26/05/2014 10:25

We can see it fine. We just don't care. At all.

We care about the definition of a tv about as much as you care about the differing textures between L'Oreal foundation and Bobbi Brown foundation.

Whathaveiforgottentoday · 26/05/2014 10:26

this is great, I thought it was just me. I can see the difference, I just don't care. It doesn't improve the quality of the program. DH is obsessed and regularly comes in and changes the program i'm watching onto the HD channel and I can see the difference but it just doesn't affect my enjoyment of the program.
It must be just a man thing!

JuniperTisane · 26/05/2014 10:34

I'm not sure I've ever watched anything in HD. My living room telly is 18 years old and square and the kitchen tv is just a bog-standard lcd thing without HD. The picture looks a bit clearer on the CRT tv.

Iwillorderthefood · 26/05/2014 10:34

I like HD I find my eyes hurt when I watch something that is not in HD (am female).

Ploppy16 · 26/05/2014 10:40

Many women do notice, I don't get the Man thing going on here, I watch most things on HD if it's available, so dot parents and elderly grandma. It's just a 'thing', not a man or woman thing. Some notice, some don't care.
Football is deforest a damn sight better in HD!

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UtterFool · 26/05/2014 10:43

We care about the definition of a tv about as much as you care about the differing textures between L'Oreal foundation and Bobbi Brown foundation.

Lol that's funny. On the same lines, we are staying in a lovely little cottage in the middle of nowhere this week. Only this morning my wife is gushing over the Orla Kiely bed linen and how great it feels between the sheets.

In fairness it is very nice but after this thread I was so tempted to tell her I couldn't feel the difference

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CalamitouslyWrong · 26/05/2014 10:45

I'm that anyone can't tell the difference. Are you sure your tvs are set up right?

I never watch the SD channels on our tv. I marvel that the PILs can watch fuzz-o-vision on their ginormous tv. It's like watching tv through someone's voile curtains.

BananaBumps · 26/05/2014 10:46

This is really interesting, my DH keeps complaining when I watch things on the non-HD channels, but I've tried flicking between HD and non-HD and genuinely can't see any difference. 42 inch telly so not fantastically huge but not small either.

Judging by the responses above it's not a male/female thing but affects some people more than others.

Similarly, when computer screens weren't as good as they are now I was very sensitive to them flickering and needed to set them to a high frequency to stop the flickering when my colleagues would think the lower frequency was fine.

CalamitouslyWrong · 26/05/2014 10:47

I don't use the tv speakers either, gamerchick. The sound is abysmal.

JustAQuickiePlease · 26/05/2014 10:48

I honestly can't tell the difference. I can, though, see towels that have been left on the bathroom floor.

WitchWay · 26/05/2014 10:48

I can't tell the difference. Also DH has bought a huge TV for our lounge - I don't feel I can see the whole screen at once & have to move my eyes/head around - like the cinema but too close. He has to sit directly in front of any TV he's watching as he "can't" watch from an angle - I don't care if I'm watching sideways - doesn't seem to make much difference to me

Ploppy16 · 26/05/2014 10:50

Yes to TV speakers, even really good tv's seem to have unbelievably bad sound. Between his eyesight and my hearing problems we need the front room wired up to buggery to be able to hear or see anything

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