[opendtv] Re: Why Europe should choose 720P for HDTV

Tom McMahon wrote:

>  Yes.  And I must personnaly thank Craig Mundie whose budget that came out 
> of.  I mean that totally and sincerely as a credit to
> Craig, Michelle Herman, Susan Klysa, Hank Vigil, Jim Kajiya, Alvy Ray Smith, 
> Jim Blinn, and Steve Gabriel.  We did The Right Thing.
> Howard Hughes would have condoned it.
> 
> - Tom McMahon
> 
Somehow that makes it sound a bit more controversial.  I'd love to hear 
the story behind it.  ;-)

- Tom

> -----Original Message-----
> From: opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:opendtv-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On 
> Behalf Of Tom Barry
> Sent: Saturday, December 11, 2004 8:20 AM
> To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [opendtv] Re: Why Europe should choose 720P for HDTV
> 
> Tom McMahon wrote:
> 
>  > When I was at Microsoft, I funded John to write a paper on this very 
> subject in order to clarify and lend credibility to the
> issues  > that Mark and John describe.
> 
> If that paper was by any chance this one ( 
> http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/archive/convrg1.mspx ) then I thank you, as it 
> formed the
> basis for my own belief that capture, transmission, and display resolutions 
> should best be 3 different sizes.  I've been linking
>   to it on my web site for years.
> 
> 
> 
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