[opendtv] Re: BBC Demonstrates HDTV Broadcasts over SD Channels
- From: Tom Barry <trbarry@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 07:33:45 -0400
At a viewing distance below about 2 screen widths some people
might want to consider 1080p as it becomes affordable. And at a
viewing distance above 3 screen widths 480p might be enough for many.
But 720p is probably just perfect in between. ;-)
- Tom
Craig Birkmaier wrote:
> At 12:27 PM -0400 6/20/05, John Golitsis wrote:
>
>>Now isn't that just so very conclusive! ;)
>>
>>On 20-Jun-05, at 8:57 AM, Craig Birkmaier wrote:
>>
>>
>>> For larger screens, up to 50", 720p with 1,280 pixels per
>>
>> > line was considered ideal.
>>
>
>
> I don't know about conclusive, but "logical" comes to mind.
>
> At least the Europeans have had the benefit of learning from our
> experience with HDTV...
>
> Then again, they had experience with interlaced HDTV before we even
> had a digital HD standard in the U.S. As I remember they found
> 1250/50i to be less than optimal, so they killed it.
>
> Regards
> Craig
>
>
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