RE: [H] Plasma TV

Tue, 05 Apr 2005 11:48:18 -0700

There is no compression, the black bars on a Sony 4:3 XBR use a method called "anamorphic squeeze" so that the content is displayed in it's native aspect ratio and the black bars do not count towards the resolution (wasting resolution data).

From: "Bill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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To: "'The Hardware List'" <[email protected]>
Subject: RE: [H] Plasma TV
Date: Tue, 5 Apr 2005 11:43:50 -0700


While the subject of TV's is being discussed, I have the question for the ages..
I must admit I am totally lost with regard to HDTV.. Gaining in understanding,
but still hopelessly befuddled.

My TV is a Sony WEGA 40XBR800.. This is the 40" tube TV that weighs 305 pounds..
What a monster, but what a picture..

So I decided to take the plunge with Cox and get HD hooked up..
The digital box with Cox is a Scientific Atlanta Explorer 3250HD..

High Definition really is amazing..

So here we go.. Is the picture by definition, necessarily compressed to a
smaller size with black and gray bars as borders in the center of the screen?

I'm having to answer my wife's classic question: "It's really a clear picture
Bill, but why is the picture so small?" Of course she is used to a 4:3 TV where
the picture fills the screen..

HD is compressed, but all my other digital non-HD pictures are compressed also..

Struggling to understand here..

TIA,

Bill

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