On Saturday 21 May 2005 09:45 pm, James Armstrong wrote: > On May 21, 2005, at 4:11 PM, Brad Templeton wrote: > > On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 12:26:35PM -0400, Michael T. Dean wrote: > >> One reason that I haven't yet purchased a high-definition TV is > >> the fact > >> that TV's being sold today do not fully support the ATSC standard. > >> Whereas the maximum resolution allowable in the ATSC standard is > >> 1920x1080 pixels, today's TV's only support 1280x720 pixels > >> resolution. > > > > True, but that's similar to the logic that says you should never buy > > a computer, since if you buy one, it will be obsolete in 2 years when > > something twice as fast and half the price is available. > > Actually, that is what you get when you buy the new fangled tv's. My > 3 year old Hitachi HDTV has 1200 lines of resolution. That is why I > hate these new flatscreen and plasma tv's. They are only 720.
Heh. Check your terminology. 'Lines of resolution' generally means horizontal resolution, not vertical. Isaac _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
