Video Asylum

Posted by Bruce from DC (B) on April 05, 2002 at 14:27:41

In Reply to: bailing as fast as i can posted by petew on April 05, 2002 at 14:16:29:

Not at all.

You make a good point that everyone needs to watch out for -- there's a myriad of different formats 1080i, 720p, etc. etc. and it's hard to keep 'em all straight. So a buyer swimming around in all this has got to look out for the sharks and make sure he doesn't get bitten when he plunks down the rather large stack of bills that buying one of these things requires.

IIRC, the unit that my wife and I saw was the Pioneer jobbie that I linked to. I know it wasn't interlaced (I can tell the difference) and I don't think it was as big as 50 inches. (Her reaction immediately upon our walking into the store: "Oooh, that's nice and so thin, just like a picture!" (The had the display wall-mounted.) Our local PBS outlet was showing an HDTV broadcast about rennaisance painting -- quite the program to show off the virtues of HDTV.