laptops with 1200 vertical resolution

[Eddie G. O'Connor Jr.]

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.
>


I can sympathize with this, I am not one of those people who are 
impressed with this generation's sudden desire to go "mobile". Tablets, 
and iPhones, along with all these other "smart" devices appear as toys 
to me....I prefer laptops and desktops, and wired connections, because 
to me they're more reliable than wireless. I don't know that keeping TV 
technology in an analog state is better or worse, since to me TV....is 
just TV. I can SEE differences when you compare HD to regular 
television, but is there REALLY such a thing as "HD RADIO"?.....as I've 
heard some stations proclaiming?...I mean....we....as humans can only 
hear sounds in a specific range....nothing above....nor below....so if 
thats the case...how can you "improve" my radio experience with "high 
definition" radio?...I dunno.....just seems like a lot fo things are 
more for Show & Tell than anything else these days....


EGO II