[opendtv] Re: News: If There's a High-Definition TV in Your Future, Wait Till After the Holidays

At 9:53 AM -0400 8/29/07, John Golitsis wrote:
And how does all this mumbo-jumbo about formats that don't exist on displays that don't exist equate to this comment of yours:
"(Note: 42" sets have the ability to deliver resolution approximately equal to 480P, which is well matched to standard definition DVD)."
All formats exist. It is quite easy to arbitrarily resample any format to any other format.
The 960 x 480@60P format used by NTL was very real. They had a complete production chain produced by Japanese video equipment vendors and were on the air with it for a number of years.
As you may have noticed, display resolutions do not necessarily match up with the ATSC formats. It's no big deal, since every DTV must resample any available format to the native resolution of the display.
All of the tools I have to create video content can easily output any arbitrary format. So producing a 1024 x 576 program from HD source is trivially easy. And in the world of downloaded content, the resolution is arbitrary. 

So stop all of these mumbo jumbo questions John... You know better.
The fact remains that on a 40-42 inch diagonal display you do not need 720P to produce sharp images. Hook up a standard definition DVD to one display and a Blu-Ray DVD player to an identical display. position the viewers at about 7-9 feet from the display, and 9 out of 10 people will not be able to tell the difference between the two. 

Regards
Craig



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