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Re: Any impressions of HDTV?

Posted by Edp on March 11, 1999 at 12:25:51:
At a recent WCES show, I saw many different units and have also seen them a bit in stores.
When source quality, signal quality and recording equipment quality was at the best, there is no comparison. BUT many units I saw could not handle images that included stop/move/stop action. The big deal at WCES was to come see American football, because like when TV's first came out, sports events really moved the units out the door (guy thing). A strange and almost sickening/queezy feeling seeing the TV basically doing a focus/slight blur/focus dance. No idea if the recording equipment (cameras, broadcast) were up to snuff.
Local area has HDTV broadcasts. In store one unit was not doing so well on picking up, so the image froze/pixilated/jitter-jogged ahead. Reruns of 1980's tv programs was nothing special. Canned demos of slow/moderate pans of nature were stunning.
Do you remember the midstages of TV (with tubes!) where the units were getting cheap enough, but there was alot of ghost/snow/flip/skew/fade.
Seems like we may be at that stage right now in this Digital TV world, but it promises to be almost as staggering as when color came on board. In time.