POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Baffling : Re: Baffling Server Time
5 Sep 2024 01:18:53 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Baffling  
From: Darren New
Date: 26 Apr 2010 15:49:52
Message: <4bd5ee60$1@news.povray.org>
Jim Henderson wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 19:20:26 +0100, Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> 
>> 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...
> 
> It is actually a big deal when you have a big screen.  Our 16:9 
> projection screen measures 106" diagonally, and there is a *huge* 
> improvement between SD and HD on it.

Heh. And my brother has his stuff all hooked up to a projector giving him a 
9 foot diagonal picture. Pretty cool to play video game football when the 
players are literally larger than life size.

-- 
Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   Linux: Now bringing the quality and usability of
   open source desktop apps to your personal electronics.


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