P3D Re: LCD's vs. Chrome's

["Greg Wageman" <gjw@xxxxxxxxxx>]

From: Vincent Chan <v7chan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>


> Thanks for the clarification.  But even with video, I would still have
to
>disagree with you :-).    I think the words "digital" and "video" are
now
>one of the same.
>
> It's pretty amazing how clear the picture is (it's digital) with no
sign
>of any compression artifacts, and the number of channels that they can
get,
>as well as the information they get about each program (title, actors,
time
>remaining, etc.) and internet access.

Regardless of how "clear" the picture looks, the resolution of any NTSC
standard video signal cannot exceed 640x480, and in most cases is
considerably less than this.  Until the standard is revised, this will
continue to be true, digital source or not.  My point was that the NTSC
standard has been with us for 40 years so far.  It is unlikely that the
next improvement after HDTV (which will obsolete all HDTV television
sets that cannot be upgraded from the HDTV standard to whatever comes
next) will come too much faster.

So devices which are made to display NTSC television pictures won't soon
look like transparencies, because there's no reason to make them so much
higher resolution than NTSC can possibly display.

(Even the best computer monitors can typically only do about 1600x1200,
still far less resolution than film.  Although they are likely to
improve much more quickly than televisions.)

     -Greg W. (gjw@xxxxxxxxxx)