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Invisible wrote:
> 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...
Government regulators, for whom being safe is generally more important
than being right, had a major role in the determination of the standard.
The standard had to allow for broadcast within a strictly-defined
frequency band, and this limit was chosen based on technology that is
now ready for deployment to your local museum, because these decisions
were made years ago.
If I am remembering things correctly, there was even some insistence
that the signal be displayable by sets designed for the old broadcast
standard. If that sounds thinking-impaired, well, that's the FCC for you.
Regards,
John
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