DONT buy a HDTV right now. According to Steve @ steves-digicams.com there is a new flat screen technology coming out that blows away plasma for cost effectiveness. Right now we can get a 50'' plasma for around $6000, but the quote from Steve was that we could see 50'' flat screen (like 2 inches think..) tv's for as cheap as $1500! The name of the new technology eludes me right now, but Steve knows what he is talking about...
jon ----- Original Message ----- From: "BethF" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 12:46 PM Subject: Re: DVD (was: Drink O'Clock!) > Thanks again Ben. > I refuse to buy a Tv until HD comes down in price because I am not buying a > conventional one. Hopefully it won't be long!! > > --Beth, Pseudo usenet cop > Merlin MTB, BikeE AT, RANS gliss, Trek R200, Kickbike > Owned by Kavik (Samoyed Boy) and Toklat (Keeshond Boy) > Anchorage, Alaska > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Braver, Ben" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "CF-Community" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 8:35 AM > Subject: RE: DVD (was: Drink O'Clock!) > > > > Beth > > Thanks > > > > Yes, you can watch regular TV on HDTV > > Although y'know how widescreen movies have horizontal black bars across > the > > top and bottom of the screen on conventional tv's? Well, HDTV is a 16:9 > > aspect ratio (as opposed to 4:3 conventional). So if you watch regular tv > on > > an HDTV set you get gray vertical bars to the left and right of the > picture. > > > > DVD is awesome on HDTV > > resolution on HDTV is up to 1080 lines (interlaced) > > some sets like Sony XBR, maybe others > > have a mode where they massage the 480 line DVD into 960 on the tv. > > > > But for the last coupla years I've been really happy with DVD on my > > conventional bigscreen. > > > > Supposedly there's "high definition DVD" coming in a few years, which will > > have resolution to really take advantage of HDTV. Toshiba and others > > demonstrated prototypes of the "blue laser" required to do this magic at > the > > Consumer Electronics Show a couple of weeks ago, I heard. > > > > So I'm waiting to get HDTV for 3 reasons - > > mass-marketing will make it cheaper over time > > more programming available to take advantage of it > > don't have the money yet :-) > > > > -bb > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: BethF [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Friday, January 18, 2002 9:31 AM > > To: CF-Community > > Subject: Re: DVD (was: Drink O'Clock!) > > > > > > Thank you ben - that was very helpful, but now I have more questions. > > > > Can you watch regular tv on HD? > > > > > > and have you seen DVD on HD? > > > > --Beth, Pseudo usenet cop > > Merlin MTB, BikeE AT, RANS gliss, Trek R200, Kickbike > > Owned by Kavik (Samoyed Boy) and Toklat (Keeshond Boy) > > Anchorage, Alaska > ______________________________________________________________________ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
