laptops with 1200 vertical resolution

[Mark LaPierre]

On 01/05/2013 02:20 PM, Tim wrote:
> Tim:
>>> I don't know about elsewhere, but here in Australia, high resolution TV
>>> has been a bit of a flop.
>
> R. G. Newbury:
>> HD will come. If you like sports you might hit on your local station to
>> broadcast Oz footie in HD.
>
> We had a sports-only HD channel, that eventually caved in and stopped
> being sports-only.  Sports would be a good example for a need for HD,
> with all that text on the screen, and a tiny ball in a field of players.
> Unfortunately, most large screen TVs are LCD, and they're crap at fast
> motion (as a camera pans across the field, the screen is really blurry -
> some of that's the MPEG compression, a lot of that is technology of an
> LCD screen).
>
> Digital TV has been the decimation of our television stations.  It cost
> an outrageous fortune to replace the transmitter, and all the production
> equipment, and our local stations have become little more than a relay
> of Sydney television, just with local adverts and a tabloid excuse for a
> news service.  Two of them have left their studios to shift to mere
> office space.  Having to change to HD, just a few years later, is
> another expense that the stations don't want.  Analogue equipment might
> last twenty years, and not need endless fiddling.  Digital equipment
> needs replacing every few years, and has required daily management by
> engineering.
>
> If you want to make a disaster, digitise/computerise it.
>

[tim at localhost ~]$ uname -r
2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686

Wow Tim,  You're still running FC9 on an internet connected device?  I 
can understand why you don't accept email.

[mlapier at mushroom ~]$ uname -r
2.6.32-279.19.1.el6.i686

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