The public can't even understand the benefits of letterboxing, they buy the fullscreen DVD cause they think the picture is chopped off or that are losing that much of the TV their hard-earned money bought from working at the DQ.
Try to explain 16:9, anamorphic vs. non-anamorphic, and they look at you like a dog that's just been shown a card trick.
They do know that a DVD player hooked up to a HD set looks good,(and in their minds plasma=HD) when you tell them it could look much better and that DVD is not HD, they're like "Huh?".
The average person (whos money makes this format descision--its simple numbers, they have more) has no damn clue, and even though we commentors and the perprieters of this blog understand all of this though and though, this is completely the wrong damn time, and wrong product to have a format war about. Really though, Farjouda Chip in the DVD pumped out HDMI on a 1080p microdisplay set looks pretty damn good anyway, even if the set is being fed 1080i cause the set can't take a true 1080p signal.
The real innovation in this crap is going to simplification. Whoever manages to succeed in making all of this truely simple to hookup, simple to interface, and simple to control (without macro-based remotes) true interconnectivity, will come out on top. The best option now and in the future (since I don't see and interconnectivity standard in place for the consumer electronic dedicated box model EVER happening) is the Media-Center PC type of thing. All the complicated stuff handled by the computer, all devices connected to the computer, the computer dumbs it down for people.
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Cecil @ Oct 17th 2005 2:22PM
The public can't even understand the benefits of letterboxing, they buy the fullscreen DVD cause they think the picture is chopped off or that are losing that much of the TV their hard-earned money bought from working at the DQ.
Try to explain 16:9, anamorphic vs. non-anamorphic, and they look at you like a dog that's just been shown a card trick.
They do know that a DVD player hooked up to a HD set looks good,(and in their minds plasma=HD) when you tell them it could look much better and that DVD is not HD, they're like "Huh?".
The average person (whos money makes this format descision--its simple numbers, they have more) has no damn clue, and even though we commentors and the perprieters of this blog understand all of this though and though, this is completely the wrong damn time, and wrong product to have a format war about. Really though, Farjouda Chip in the DVD pumped out HDMI on a 1080p microdisplay set looks pretty damn good anyway, even if the set is being fed 1080i cause the set can't take a true 1080p signal.
The real innovation in this crap is going to simplification. Whoever manages to succeed in making all of this truely simple to hookup, simple to interface, and simple to control (without macro-based remotes) true interconnectivity, will come out on top. The best option now and in the future (since I don't see and interconnectivity standard in place for the consumer electronic dedicated box model EVER happening) is the Media-Center PC type of thing. All the complicated stuff handled by the computer, all devices connected to the computer, the computer dumbs it down for people.