POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Baffling : Re: Baffling Server Time
4 Sep 2024 23:22:32 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Baffling  
From: Orchid XP v8
Date: 26 Apr 2010 14:20:23
Message: <4bd5d967$1@news.povray.org>
>> I often wonder why we don't have monitors with 300dpi or 600dpi yet. 
>> Then the text on screen would be nearly print-quality.
> 
> People in the printing business would laugh at you for that statement. 
> 300dpi is barely draft quality. 1200dpi is what you show the clients in 
> black and white to get their approval before actually printing it.

You're telling me it's possible to tell the difference betwee 600dpi and 
1200dpi?

> So you're complaining about the fact that there's a 720p and a 1080p HD 
> standard (at least in the USA), and you're only getting 512i signals 
> anyway?

As I say, everybody's shouting about 2x the resolution as if it's some 
big deal or something.

Now, if it was 10x the resolution, that would seem more impressive...

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