scott wrote:
>> Must take some serious MPEG compression to fit that onto a disk - even 
>> a bluray disk has only finite storage capacity.
> 
> 50 GB max IIRC.

Well, let me see...

1,920 pixels x 1,080 pixels = 2,073,600 pixels / frame

3 bytes / pixel x 2,073,600 pixels / frame = 6,220,800 bytes / frame

25 frames / second x 6,220,800 bytes / frame = 155,520,000 bytes / second

Approx 148.31 MB / second. (Woah, that's some transfer rate!)

8.69 GB / minute.

512.40 GB / hour. So only 10x bigger than the disk. ;-)

>> My laptop doesn't go that high. ;-)
> 
> You mean the VGA output or the LCD?

Both. They don't bother putting a video card in a laptop that can do 
1600x1200 if the LCD itself is only 1024x768. (In fact, it seems my 
laptop has only 3 resolutions, 3 colours depths and 1 scan rate.)

>> (Also, it has only VGA and S-Video output. I managed to find an 
>> S-Video to SCART converter, which allows me to connect to the TV.)
> 
> Yuk :-) you need VGA, component or DVI/HDMI for HD resolutions...



That's the other thing - HD seems to involve a whole zoo of different 
connectors. For normal analogue video signals it's much simpler.

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