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Re: What's the deal with high defintion?

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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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