J. C. O'Connell wrote: > I never said HDTV was perfect, I said > it BLOWS AWAY even the very best analog > NTSC and it does. You cant get any programming > for a PC monitor and even those are rarely > up to the full 1080P sets you can easily > get for the HDTV format. Most widescreen LCDs for > PC are currently 1600 pixels wide at most > whereas full HD resolution is 1980 pixels wide.
No, HDTV is 1920 pixels wide (1920x1080 actually, for full-res 1080i or p). And the LCD's I'm referring to are running at 1600x1050 (20"/21" widescreen) or 1920x1200 (23/24"). The latter can do something almost no TV can, 1080p at native resolution, with better contrast ratios, faster pixel repsonse and far smaller pixel pitches. Oh, and you can get HD decoders for the PC, so the programming is the same (And of course, there's always the easily available rips online, typically at DVD quality. > > > Secondly, no 23" or 24" inch screen can > even remotely come close to a home theater > experience a very large HD screen will give you. > It's just way too dinky and the wrong scale. > > jco And scale isn't an issue if you're 2' away instead of 10'. And these are 16:10 format screens I'm referring to. -Adam -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
