Kathi9/24/02 7:30 AM > On 2002-09-24 16:21, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> In a message dated 9/24/02 3:15:29 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> >>> Once we can get ourselves screens with much higher resolutions (200-300 dpi >>> or more), I think screen output will change to be based on real-world >>> measurements, and as such will display items at a set size, but at a >>> different resolution depending on the quality of your display. >>> >> For all practical purposes, such resolution would amount to photographic >> quality. Look forward to it. > > Don't hold your breath. It'd require a completely different approach to > display out put. For starters, everything would need to be vector based. For > example, you would no longer define an icon in an OS as "a 128x128 pixel > image", but a "3x3cm image". > >> Then higher printer resolution would follow. > > Why? > > ,xtG > .tsooJ It wasn't that long ago that I heard the same thing about High Definition TV. And this was from Electrical Engineers.
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