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Posted by grant kinsley on 02/13/06 20:56
On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 16:57:49 GMT, AZ Nomad <aznomad@PmunOgeBOX.com>
wrote:
>On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 14:31:30 GMT, Roy L Fuchs <roylfuchs@urfargingicehole.org> wrote:
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>>On Mon, 13 Feb 2006 14:20:57 GMT, AZ Nomad <aznomad@PmunOgeBOX.com>
>>Gave us:
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>>>On 13 Feb 2006 04:58:09 -0800, Modemac <modemac@gmail.com> wrote:
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>>>>http://www.boingboing.net/2006/02/12/only_big_companies_p.html
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>>>>Apparently, the so-called "anti-piracy" mesasures being put into place
>>>>will only allow the new high-definition DVDs to play onPCs manufactured
>>>>by Sony, Dell, or other mega-corporations. If you have a custom-built
>>>>PC, or if you dared to install your DVD-ROM drive yourself, you may be
>>>>out of luck.
>>>
>>>No problem. If over the air TV is a 1 and film is a 10, DVD sits at about
>>>3 and hdtv at about 4. It is a pretty damn small difference.
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>> You're an idiot. Your numbers more closely match your IQ.
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>mindless ad hominem. If you've ever seen a tv set receiving a broadcast
>over the air, a DVD, an HDTV broadcast, *and* film, you'd agree with my
>finding. You need to come out of your room more often.
>
>Only somebody who has only watched DVDs can possibly think that HDTV is
>anything but a very minor improvement.
I have HDTV and DVD, and the difference is significant, very near the
difference between OTA and DVD.
The real question that comes to mind, is what level of compression are
you watching your HDTV at. Certainly NBCs Olympic broadcasts show how
bad overcompression can be, but PBS shows like the latest season of
Rick Steves and Rudy Maxa's smart travels show how excellent HDTV is
(like walk into the screen detail)
Mind you, I am projecting at 100 inches diagonal, and the difference
is certainly going to be seen more at this size than on a 28 inch
monitor.
BTW his attack isn't an ad hominem, to be an ad hominem, the insult
involved has to have no bearing on the argument. In this case he is
statring (maybve with inappropriate language, that you are in fact
wrong, and that is easily defended by looking at the difference in
simple numbers when comparing OTA vs. DVD vs. HDTV.
If he were to have said that you are White Trash, and therefore you
wouldn't know the difference between HDTV and what your aerial made
from a coat hanger picks up, that would be an ad hominem, becasue
simply being white trash doesn't mean you can't tell a good picture
from bad, but in this case only an idiot (or a blind man)( can say
that well displayed HDTV isn't a significant improvment over well
diplayed DVD, and that's true.
G
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