Posted by chrisv on 01/02/07 14:56

Bobbie wrote:

>Ummm. Except for one problem. DVD was a very noticeable improvement over
>VHS and S-VHS. HD-DVD / Blue-Ray isn't all that noticeable of an
>improvement over DVD. If marginal improvement drove innovation then S-VHS
>would have replaced VHS and Digital Compact Cassette would have replaced
>the conventional cassette.

I tend to agree with this. Anamorphic DVD finally gave us movies in
the widescreen format REQUIRED at a quality level that's quite
adequate for most consumers.

I run a 480x854 DLP front-projector at a 70" diagonal, and it's pretty
darn good, IMO, and I'm a lot more fussy about quality than most
people are...

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