Posted by AZ Nomad on 03/10/06 03:54

On Thu, 9 Mar 2006 20:49:27 -0600, Jay G. <"Jay "@tmbg.org> wrote:


>On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 21:29:22 GMT, Dragon wrote:

>> "Jay G." <"Jay "@tmbg.org> wrote in message
>> news:kh5rz19vbx4y.1vjogmy3wu0y5$.dlg@40tude.net...
>>> On Thu, 09 Mar 2006 12:55:07 GMT, Dragon wrote:
>>>
>>> Older films will be released on HD. However, they still will be released
>>> on DVD as well. DVD is too large a market for anyone to ignore, and most
>>> films being released on DVD nowadays are mastered in HD anyway.
>>>
>>
>> that will do me all i need to do now is consider a hd dvd player if they are
>> worth the money and how much do they differ from normal dvd players playing
>> on a hdtv

>HD discs will have up to 5 times the resolution of a standard definition
>DVD. The degree to which this increase in resolution is noticable depends
>on the size and quality of HDTV you have, as well as probably how good your
>eyesight is.

Two to three times the resolution actually. Resolution is the number of lines
per inch, the number of dots along one dimension. A good improvement over
NTSC, but nowhere the resolution of film.

In 10 years, HDTV will be as much a joke as ISDN. At least it's a step in the
right direction.

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