And lo on Thu, 22 Nov 2007 11:50:12 -0000, Invisible <voi### [at] devnull> did  
spake, saying:

> scott wrote:
>>> That's interesting. I was in some shop the other day, and they had a  
>>> huge LCD with "HD Ready" splashed all over it, and huge cardboard  
>>> signs saying "WOW! LOOK AT THE DIFFERENCE!" And I remember thinking  
>>> "...I can't see any difference."
>>  They were probably feeding in some crappy HD or worse even SD  
>> material... NExt time take along a copy of the pixar shorts on blu-ray  
>> and ask them to play that on a 1080p TV.  It will knock you out!
>
> They were running National Geographic HD. (Doesn't mean they had an HD  
> decoder of course...) Lots of long short of mountains, jungles, big  
> savanas and stuff that's clearly meant to make you go "wow". It honestly  
> didn't look much different to what I get on my 7 year old TV at home.

Remembering that all the training they've had in electronics is to  
remember to ask "So you want the extended warranty on that?". It's scary  
at times watching HD televisions being fed an input via an unshielded  
multifeed or from an HD Box via a SCART connector.

>>> I mean, let's face it, HD is only 4x the imagine resolution.
>>  "only".  What resolution do run your desktop in?  Now imagine dividing  
>> that by 4.  It wouldn't be pretty...
>
> As far as I know, a normal TV operates at something like 300x200 or so.  
> That means that 4x would only be 600x400 - still extremely low.

As has already been mentioned PAL has 625 lines with normally only 576  
active lines.


>
> I think we've established that the shop was overpriced. ;-)

You seem to have a few of those :-)

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Phil Cook

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