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Posted by Derek Janssen on 06/01/07 20:31
By way of Yahoo News, Audioholics published a For-Dummies guide column
on where that over-air/cable HD programming is really coming from and
whether you're getting it, for beginners:
http://www.audioholics.com/news/industry-news/are-you-sure-youre-watching-hdtv.html
Nice basics--
So, to spare me asking some underpaid Best Buy employee, and go straight
for the niche geeks with my questions:
I have neither the funding nor inclination to get satellite or digital
cable (Netflix people don't *do* on-demand PPV), pretty much just want
to invest in a large-screen for future post-'09 compatibility, use it
chiefly as a monitor for whatever (coughbluafteroctober) hi-def disk
player I end up buying the same year, and maybe tune in on whatever
over-air HD programming wanders by...Oh, and small apartment, so it's
only going to be 40" LCD, if that, tops.
--SO--
Question: If I see a letterboxed PBS documentary with that fancy "This
show is filmed in Hi-Def" intro, or I see Jay Leno or Conan O'Brien on a
big cavernous widescreen studio on NBC--both over normal
basic-cable--*and* I have a tuner-ready set kicked in, may I assume I'd
be watching those as nature intended?
(And that's assuming the cable connection is direct, and not through my
old component-VCR.)
Derek Janssen (sometimes you have to roll up your jeans and wade in the
geek pool knee deep) :)
ejanss@comcast.net
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