I applaud Graywolf's economical choice, but I disagree with Adam's evaluation of HDTV. I have a 61 inch Pioneer plasma on the wall. There's a lot of HD broadcast these days. Most of the time I'm getting at least 15 HD channels over Direct TV. Today, with football and the Superfan package, I'm getting all the NFL games in HD. I'm watching the Bears of course. But the difference between HD and SD is substantial. No, it's more than substantial. It's like the difference between a 2 megapixel point and shoot and a 10 megapixel DSLR. No comparison. I haven't gone for HD DVD in either format yet. I'll wait until it's affordable. But like JCO said, standard DVDs upsampled to 1080i are far better than the same played in low resolution. Paul On Dec 17, 2006, at 1:21 PM, Adam Maas wrote:
> Seen HDTV, not worth the cost. A good HD set costs more than my > laptop, > for little benefit (unless you host several people at once and thus > need > a larger screen further from you). > > HD is mostly a scam to get you to buy new HD-DVD's or Blu-Ray DVD's to > replace your DVD collection, while ensuring you can't record TV > broadcasts for your archive. > > -Adam > Who *may* go HD when he gets an Xbox 360, but only for the games which > actually do benefit from more resolution. > > > J. C. O'Connell wrote: >> My God, this is the HDTV era for 8 years >> already! Get yourself >> a good HDTV and get free DVDS ( they look >> way better on a progressive scan HDTV >> than any analog 4x3 set can ) from the >> library. You dont know what you're missing, >> especailly if you can appreciate good >> imaging/cinematography and being a photographer already kinda >> proves that. >> jco >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >> Behalf Of >> graywolf >> Sent: Sunday, December 17, 2006 12:16 PM >> To: PDML >> Subject: It's snowing in hell --OT >> >> >> Graywolf got a new pet, a television. There it was sitting in the >> thrift >> >> store looking all sad and abandoned, so he paid $15 + tax to >> spring it. >> It sulked at first shutting itself off after less than an hour, and >> graywolf thought he was going to have to turn it out on the >> streets. But >> >> a thorough cleaning, wasn't filthy but 25 years of dust on its >> circuit >> boards mostly came off and a night to get used to its new home, >> and it >> seems to be working nicely. >> >> Like any new pet graywolf is going to have to buy it some things, a >> remote, and a longer cable as the one he has is not long enough to >> tether it to the splitter and he has to change back and forth >> between it >> >> and the modem in the mean time. And later a VCR so graywolf can watch >> movies from the local public library. Maybe an upgrade in cable >> service. >> >> This could be a very expensive pet. >> >> OH? The breed? Magnavox 27in stereo console. By its tag it was born >> early in 1983 and cost $539.97 ($849.95 list). Does that make it an >> antique, or just an old TV? >> >> One would think the thing would take up a lot of space, but actually >> instead of taking up space it provides a table to place things >> like the >> DVD player and the Epson printer on. >> >> Anyway as the subject line implies graywolf buying a TV is a very >> rare >> occurrence, it has only happened twice in 63 years. >> >> > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
