laptops with 1200 vertical resolution

[Tim]

Roberto Ragusa:
>> Laptop resolution of more than 1920x1080 is almost extinct.
>> Damned HDTV economy of scale is killing any other format.

Ian Pilcher:
> That's the story, but it doesn't hold water ... unless there's a part of
> the world where people are buying a lot of 13" and 15" HDTVs.

I read the /damnation/ as being that the laptops are being produced,
mostly, for people doing rather dumb computing and watching DVDs on
their laptop, so the manufacturers are only producing laptop screens
with only a high enough resolution for those jobs.  Rather than the
medium resolution LCD panels being produced for laptops and domestic
television screens.

I don't know about elsewhere, but here in Australia, high resolution TV
has been a bit of a flop.  We only have about 3 high res TV channels out
of about 16, and much of what they put to air is standard resolution,
anyway.  And, oddly enough, one of the better looking programs is a
1980s UK TV program shot using 900 line resolution tube cameras; bumped
up to high res it looks very nice, compare that to modern 4:3 CCD studio
cameras which rarely went above 750 line resolution.  Then there's the
several heavily compressed standard resolution channels from the same
station that looks like VHS is being put to air.  And people don't seem
to be complaining about it, nor even noticing.  Seriously, why buy a
$1000+ high res TV set when there's little of it to watch.

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