"Unlike what you would like to believe HD doesn't stand for Blu-ray."
Who said it did? Blu-Ray isn't even all that good, but here come downloads that are not even as good as that.
Most "HD" IS fraud, and it pervades the whole industry. For example, we have Panasonic selling 960 x 720 as HD. And that's an acquisition format. For the end user, we have DirecTV peddling their utterly abysmal picture quality as HD. The eventual format may wind up being 1920 x 1080 or 1280 x 720, but the image is actually inferior to that of a regular DVD. Come on, take a LOOK at this garbage.
The ATSC shat out a spineless, flailing "spec" that allows 18 different picture formats and INTERLACING. The allowance of interlacing (a relic of the '30s) tells you right there that this "next generation" TV standard is hopelessly outmoded already. Combine that with no provision for codec updates to every piece of equipment, and you have a massive boondoggle.
The widespread marketing of "digital quality" insults consumers, but they don't call the perpetrators on it. They don't even THINK about it: Every answering machine these days records digitally, making their barely intelligible recordings DIGITAL QUALITY.
We have the best video-display equipment ever available to the consumer, and nothing to play on it. We have a hash of compression artifacts, banding, and macroblocking that wouldn't stand up to a 27-inch screen let alone the 50-inch TVs you find so often today.
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Information Central @ Feb 24th 2009 6:00AM
"Unlike what you would like to believe HD doesn't stand for Blu-ray."
Who said it did? Blu-Ray isn't even all that good, but here come downloads that are not even as good as that.
Most "HD" IS fraud, and it pervades the whole industry. For example, we have Panasonic selling 960 x 720 as HD. And that's an acquisition format. For the end user, we have DirecTV peddling their utterly abysmal picture quality as HD. The eventual format may wind up being 1920 x 1080 or 1280 x 720, but the image is actually inferior to that of a regular DVD. Come on, take a LOOK at this garbage.
The ATSC shat out a spineless, flailing "spec" that allows 18 different picture formats and INTERLACING. The allowance of interlacing (a relic of the '30s) tells you right there that this "next generation" TV standard is hopelessly outmoded already. Combine that with no provision for codec updates to every piece of equipment, and you have a massive boondoggle.
The widespread marketing of "digital quality" insults consumers, but they don't call the perpetrators on it. They don't even THINK about it: Every answering machine these days records digitally, making their barely intelligible recordings DIGITAL QUALITY.
We have the best video-display equipment ever available to the consumer, and nothing to play on it. We have a hash of compression artifacts, banding, and macroblocking that wouldn't stand up to a 27-inch screen let alone the 50-inch TVs you find so often today.
DEMAND BETTER.