The dicussing between Craig and Tom: > You are not missing 1440 x 1080i. The reality is > that this is all you are getting, even if the encoder > is set to 1920 x 1080i. There is no useful information > to fill the spectra above that which can be reproduced > with 1440 encoded samples. Tom is making good sense here, but the bigger point is that you guys are splitting hairs. What Mark's memo presented in an interesting way was that at the Lechner distance, anything above 25" or 31" (4:3 and 16:9 respectively) requires better quality than SDTV, for optimal viewing. All the minutiae about exactly what form of "better than SDTV" is good enough for a specific TV receiver is essentially pointless. Broadcasters will base their decision not on some theoretical optimization of quality to receiver X, but on what other stuff they might want to use their multiplex for. Even if their own productions, such as local news, are not HD quality, why shouldn't a broadcaster with enough bandwidth transmit an upconverted version? They will. There's nothing to lose. So who cares about whether 576p is good enough for a 31" set? You just transmit the most bit rate that can fit in your 6 MHz. As far as the public cares, anything better than NTSC is just as easily called HDTV. To me, that's ther only "reality" that applies here. Bert ---------------------------------------------------------------------- You can UNSUBSCRIBE from the OpenDTV list in two ways: - Using the UNSUBSCRIBE command in your user configuration settings at FreeLists.org - By sending a message to: opendtv-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line.