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In Reply to: Re: What's the deal with high defintion? posted by kotches on August 16, 2000 at 17:30:00:

Thanks for the info. I have been going to some stores that sell video equipment and I am not sure if they know what they are talking about. I usually don't want to spend more than $600 for a TV set and the HDTV's are much more than that. I am waiting for HDTV to start making smaller screen sizes (about 30 inches would be a good size for my house) that cost much less than they currently do. One more question, are all HDTV's going to be wide screen or are there some with the same aspect ratio as current TV sets?

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Re: What's the deal with high defintion? kotches 16:25:10 08/17/00 (0)
The smallest I've seen are 30" (direct view). The bad news is that
the cost to manufacture glass CRTs in that size is very costly,
and they're going for US$2600+ the last time I checked.
I don't understand the point of buying an HDTV in the 4:3 aspect
ratio myself. You're denying yourself the best part about HDTV.
To answer your question though, I'm not sure. This has been waffled
back and forth and the last I knew, the TV was required to display
1080i lines within the viewable portion of the screen. Since that
isn't the case, the 4:3 TVs aren't HD in my book.

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