 djrobx
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| I agree with Comcast As much as I'd like to see 1080p flourish, now is not the time to try and insert a new format. 1080i and 720p is what most of the gear out there works with.
IMHO, when viewed from accross a room, the majority of consumer TVs aren't big enough to see a enough of a difference between 1080i and 1080p. Heck, a lot of people have a hard time seeing the difference between 480p and 720p on 42" plasmas for gosh sakes. For the film material, people can always digitally upconvert 1080i to 1080p with no loss (since 1080p 24fps film can be encoded 100% into 1080i/60), just like they do now with 480i to 480p.
People with projectors would love it, of course. I'm pretty sure 1080p is the same format that digital cinema is done at. If everyone had full size cinemas for their TV viewing, 1080p would make sense. In the meantime, 1080i and 720p are sufficient. Providers are having enough trouble finding the bandwidth to support HD channels now as it is.
For now, let's focus on getting some good HDTV content available to people, and making sure that providers don't downsample the existing 1080i/720p feeds.
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| Huh? Comcast Pushes HDTV Like Crazy Where did the author get his "facts?"
Comcast has rolled out HDTV nationwide. It's available to 84% of their customer base, which will hit 90% by year's end.
Number two, what's with the 3 GB/sec figure for "uncompressed HDTV"? There is NOBODY who broadcasts or uses uncompressed HDTV. It's all compressed using MPEG-2.
HDTV uses about four times the bandwidth of COMPRESSED standard definition. It uses the same bandwidth as an un-compressed, over the air terrestrial signal, around 9 to 13 Mbits/sec.
Whoever wrote this story was very poorly informed. |
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Re: I agree with Comcast Does anyone know what the smallest TV that offers 1080p is? |
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