Darren New wrote:

> Myself, I find the compression artifacts tremendously distracting.

You know what I find amusing?

You sit and watch a DVD on your normal TV, and it looks just like normal 
TV. (Except a bit clearer.) Then you go watch the same DVD on your PC, 
and it looks *horrible*! There's black noise, there's big pixel blocks, 
there's bits of background moving at 2 frames per second... and then you 
realis just how lame your TV is.

I once put together a DVD where one animation was at half resolution. 
When you watch it on TV, you can't actually tell the difference... (!)

>> As far as I know, a normal TV operates at something like 300x200 or 
>> so. That means that 4x would only be 600x400 - still extremely low.
> 
> 640x480, actually, for NTSC disregarding overscan.

Mmm, OK.

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