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

  • From: "Albert Manfredi" <bert22306@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 25 Aug 2007 17:51:25 -0400

Craig Birkmaier wrote:


Thus it appears that at least 2/3's of U.S. homes may eventually buy
displays that are not capable of delivering the HDTV viewing
experience. This is not good news for Blu-Ray and HD-DVD...
37" and larger TVs can show a real difference in image quality between SD and HD source material. Not only that, but if they are also used for games and for Internet TV, which involves web browsing, then they would clearly benefit from resolutions beyond simple VGA or 480i, which is even less than VGA.
I don't know exactly what this "HDTV experience" means to you, but to me, it makes sense to feed these displays with image quality beyond 480i. If 2/3 of US households can make use of that quality in the near future, I'd say that's "mainstream."
As to the new DVD formats, oh well. They didn't exactly make it easy for consumers to love them, what with their inability to create a single standard. Regular DVD, with its 10 Mb/s peak bandwidth, is plenty good enough for the time being, on a good deinterlacing display, IMO. 

Bert

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