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NinerBikes wrote:

JiminDenver wrote:
Not the OTA channels here. They may not be 1080p all the time but the major networks are especially for sports.

Major league teams in all the big cities get the 1080p camera's and 60 frames per second, me thinks. SCVjeff is the guru on that stuff, he would know for certain, he's the guy that puts the airwaves in the air.

Depends on the network...
ABC (and all of their sports holdings) & Fox went 720 vs. 1080 because they were very early adopters, and at the time the gear of the day couldn't build a picture fast enough to chase a NASCAR driver or flying football across the field without the picture completely breaking down. It's not the problem it once used to be as processors have gotten faster and faster, and the new encoders are simply magic. But off-air you can often see the difference the reduction in data has by looking at maybe a CBS station (1080) up against Fox or any of the ABC stations (both 720). If you can see them on the same band, in the same location (Apples to Apples), AND get out to where both are equally weak, the 720 transmitter will always outperform the higher data (CBS) simply because the TV is having to deal with 1/2 the data payload to create a picture. It's very easy to demo this in Los Angeles where everyone is grouped together on the same mountain. Back to motion.. On a smaller monitor it's very difficult to see the difference of the two formats with moving video, and impossible on most non-fast motion programs. Watching any reasonably strong station not sitting at threshold is getting more and more difficult to pick between what's 720 or 1080.

Back to the previously scheduled thread...

NB- It's entirely possible that plugging the Samsung into a 12V source vs. the 14v brick on AC could yield either the same or more current over running it on AC because the current draw of the TV could increase as the voltage goes down, depending on what voltage the internal regulator is providing. Only one way to tell...