Invisible nous apporta ses lumieres en ce 2007/11/22 04:15:
> That's interesting. I was in some shop the other day, and they had a 
> huge LCD with "HD Ready" splashed all over it, and huge cardboard signs 
> saying "WOW! LOOK AT THE DIFFERENCE!" And I remember thinking "...I 
> can't see any difference."
> 
> I mean, let's face it, HD is only 4x the imagine resolution. If you 
> compare the two side by side you'd probably notice. But if you just look 
> at an HD TV, there really isn't much to notice. The picture is very 
> slightly more crisp, but that's about it.
Do you mean 4x the total numbet of pixels, or 4x the number of LINES?
4x the pixels == double the pixels per lines and double the lines.
4x the lines is more like 16x the resolution!

> 
> Certainly it hardly seems worth paying £7,000 just for a very slightly 
> more crisp picture. I could buy a *car* for that amount of money! Hell, 
> I could almost buy a copy of *Oracle* for that!
You are slightly outdated! HD prices have come down a LOT in just 2 years.

-- 
Alain
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You know you've been raytracing too long when you look at waterfalls, dust, 
rain, snow, etc, and think: "If only I had a fractalized, vector based 
particle-system modeler with collision detection!"

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