"Darren New" <dne### [at] sanrrcom> wrote in message 
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> Sabrina Kilian wrote:
>> the compression artifacts are so pronounced when you stand that close to
>> these big TVs.
>
> You know, I used to think that.  I used to work on compression algorithms, 
> so I got really good at seeing the kind of artifacts that jpeg and mpeg 
> produce. Every time I went in the store and looked at the HDTV, I saw all 
> the compression artifacts in the background and thought 'wow, that sucks.'

I'm not sure if it's just the Walmart in my neighborhood, or if all of them 
are like this, but they have lots and lots of TV's all running the same 
signal, and their TV's look like crap.  For one thing, most (if not all) are 
using shared analog connections of some kind.  Plus, the demo they have 
running has TONS of compression artifacts in it.  Any time the on-screen 
text should look clear and crisp, it looks like an awful, lossy JPEG.  It 
certainly doesn't impress.

Ironically, that's where I bought my TV.  :-)

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