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maggot wrote:
On 27 Aug 2004 21:04:05 GMT, otizer (Wblane) wrote: A big CRT and some type of tuner card is what I'm thinking now (since I can get TV tuner card for dirt cheap right now and have my FIC VA503+ all ready to go). Yea, but with an internal TV tuner card you have to have your computer on to watch TV. With the Viewsonic system it is all passthrough so you don't need to have the computer on to watch TV. And you can't record and you're limited to one channel and you can't recieve HDTV. I have never understood why some people consider having their computer turned on to be a hardship. Personally I seldom turn mine off. -- --John Reply to jclarke at ae tee tee global dot net (was jclarke at eye bee em dot net) |
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First of One wrote:
Keep in mind the resolution of HDTV may not be sufficient. From what I remember reading about HDTVs, there are the 1080i (interlaced) and 720p (progressive) standards, both with 16:9 aspect ratio, so a HDTV only has the equivalent of 1280x720 max resolution. I beg to disagree. If the set supports 1080i then its resolution is 1920x1080. Projecting this onto a 36" display could look ugly when you need to read text. Actually 1280x720 works fine for text on my 8 foot screen. -- --John Reply to jclarke at ae tee tee global dot net (was jclarke at eye bee em dot net) |
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Moreover, the HDTV spec also allows for 1080 p (progressive scan) to be implemented
whenever feasable. Now that will be a TV set! -- Todd |
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"J. Clarke" wrote in message
... Keep in mind the resolution of HDTV may not be sufficient. From what I remember reading about HDTVs, there are the 1080i (interlaced) and 720p (progressive) standards, both with 16:9 aspect ratio, so a HDTV only has the equivalent of 1280x720 max resolution. I beg to disagree. If the set supports 1080i then its resolution is 1920x1080. Yes, but that's 1920x1080 interlaced. If you feed a progressive-scan signal to it, will it "downsample" and output an interlaced picture? Though in the case of LCD TVs, I guess refresh rate is a bit of a moot point. Projecting this onto a 36" display could look ugly when you need to read text. Actually 1280x720 works fine for text on my 8 foot screen. Any idea what the dot pitch is for your 8 foot screen (or is this a projector)? -- "War is the continuation of politics by other means. It can therefore be said that politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed." |
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First of One wrote:
"J. Clarke" wrote in message ... Keep in mind the resolution of HDTV may not be sufficient. From what I remember reading about HDTVs, there are the 1080i (interlaced) and 720p (progressive) standards, both with 16:9 aspect ratio, so a HDTV only has the equivalent of 1280x720 max resolution. I beg to disagree. If the set supports 1080i then its resolution is 1920x1080. Yes, but that's 1920x1080 interlaced. If you feed a progressive-scan signal to it, will it "downsample" and output an interlaced picture? There's no "sampling" involved, it just takes two passes to display the image. Though in the case of LCD TVs, I guess refresh rate is a bit of a moot point. Projecting this onto a 36" display could look ugly when you need to read text. Actually 1280x720 works fine for text on my 8 foot screen. Any idea what the dot pitch is for your 8 foot screen (or is this a projector)? What's 8 divided by the square root of the sum of the squares of 1280 and 720? About .005 inch or .13mm. But it doesn't have a "dot pitch" per se, which applies only to CRTs, it's an LCD-based display so it has a 1:1 correspondence between physical and logical pixels unless I turn on scaling. -- "War is the continuation of politics by other means. It can therefore be said that politics is war without bloodshed while war is politics with bloodshed." -- --John Reply to jclarke at ae tee tee global dot net (was jclarke at eye bee em dot net) |
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In article , Willie Winger wrote:
On 27 Aug 2004 18:14:36 GMT, otizer (Wblane) wrote: This is all beginning to sound too complicated. I remember the nightmare I went thru a couple of years ago trying to get a 21" fixed frequency monitor to work w/my 9500 Pro -- I don't want to go thru that again. Just for the record are HDTV's fixed frequency devices? Do they support standard PC resolutions? Do HDTV's support 60Hz refresh rates? I live in an efficiency aparment (translation: small) and I need a new TV so I was thinking why not combine the TV w/a big monitor and get an HDTV of some type. -Bill (remove "botizer" to reply via email) Why not get a nice large computer monitor and use one of these. I have one. http://www.viewsonic.com/products/tv...sors/vb50hrtv/ Yup, and they are excellent for feeding your PS2 or XBOX game systems thru to your 21" monitor!!!!! |
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On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 00:21:40 -0400, "J. Clarke"
wrote: And you can't record and you're limited to one channel and you can't recieve HDTV. You watch more than one channel at a time? And why can't it recieve HDTV? It does 16:9 ratio and 4:3. I have never understood why some people consider having their computer turned on to be a hardship. Personally I seldom turn mine off. Noise. |
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maggot wrote:
On Sat, 28 Aug 2004 00:21:40 -0400, "J. Clarke" wrote: And you can't record and you're limited to one channel and you can't recieve HDTV. You watch more than one channel at a time? And why can't it recieve HDTV? It does 16:9 ratio and 4:3. I have never understood why some people consider having their computer turned on to be a hardship. Personally I seldom turn mine off. Noise. Then rig it for silent running. -- --John Reply to jclarke at ae tee tee global dot net (was jclarke at eye bee em dot net) |
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