Invisible escreveu:
> http://www.xkcd.com/732/
> 
> This puzzles me too.

yeah, my only conclusion is that you and the author of XKCD both use 
(blurry) glasses.  Perhaps that even may explain his simple art style... :D

> I mean, if you're going to force everybody to buy a new TV, new 
> receiver, new type of disk and a new machine to play it, why it increase 
> the resolution *significantly*? Why only increase it by a small amount? 
> I don't understand that.

It *is* a significant increase and it looks specially good on big Full 
HDTV screens in the living room, not a small 19 inches PC monitor.  BTW, 
mine here at work is a 19 inch LG monitor and is running at the maximum 
resolution of 1600x900 pixels.  That is below 1080p.

You won't even want to know what I ran back in 2004.  Humor demands 
exaggeration. :)


> (And hell, half the equipment and content that says "HD" on it isn't 
> even full resolution anyway... Why allow half a dozen resolutions when 
> it would have been far simpler for the designers and less misleading for 
> the public if they allow only one resolution?)

Because, say, games at full HD may have to cut geometry or frame rate 
here and there to fit comfortably?

> Hell, when I was at uni ten years ago we had computers exceeding these 
> resolutions. With Windows NT 4.0, Service Pack 4. Has technology not 
> moved on since then? It's not like there's any technical challenge to 
> using a higher resolution, after all...

Regarding the iPhone resolution:  obviously huge TV screens have far 
"bigger" pixels than that on a iPhone display.  Literally.  From the 
distance of your sofa, though, you don't notice them individually.  Just 
as a guy doesn't notice any lack of pixels at a tiny iPhone display.

> PS. I am similarly baffled by the current fashion for "widescreen" TVs. 
> Given that 99.998% of all video content ever created is in 4:3 aspect, 
> what the hell is the advantage of buying a TV with a 16:9 aspect?? I 
> don't understand.

Yeah, why sell color TVs in a time when 99.98% video content ever 
created is B&W?  This is one of your "obviously impossible" kinda 
comments, ain't it?

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