On 3/31/2012 6:53 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
On Saturday, 31 March 2012 at 07:02:35 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
And yes, it kills me that my expensive old large screen standard def TV is
just a POS in comparison, even though it is in perfect working order.
It might help that I have smaller tv sets. I have a 19" and
a 13", and they have beautiful pictures.
Not really. I have an ipod with the retina display, and the older one with the
low res display. It's a tiny screen. Casually, they look the same.
But the retina display really does make a big difference! It's just a lot less
eyestrain to read text on it, for one thing. And it just looks crisper.
I hope Amazon's next Kindle Fire will have a high res display, if it does I'll
upgrade just for that. I'm glad Apple has raised the bar on this.
Something that I found really interesting is even
on my old tvs, the new digital broadcasts actually
do look pretty good - better than cable and satellite.
That's because your cable provider is compressing the image, and the
over-the-air broadcasts do not.
