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In Reply to: HDTV - truth or fiction? posted by newtoHT on July 23, 2002 at 21:34:37:
It sounds like the salesman was ignorant and did not know what he was talking about. The lines of resolution statement is not correct. My old 30" Toshiba analog TV has 700 lines of resolution or some damned thing, but it scans at only 480i, that is, 480 interlaced scan lines every 1/30 second. My new Sony digital TV scans at 1080i and can display an HDTV broadcast with an outboard HDTV decoder (which I do not have). Really, you need to focus on the scan rate rather than the lines of resolution.My understanding is that most of these digital TVs do not have the HDTV tuner built in, but I think that some may. You can easily find a digital TV for less than $2000 that will improve the performance of your DVDs. I don't know about digital satellite--to me this is a mediocre quality transmission medium unless it's high definition. My 43" Sony HD-ready TV was less than $2000 including the stand, tax, and delivery. There are direct view digital TVs available for less than $2000 also. All of these would require an outboard HD tuner/decoder to watch HD broadcasts.
Todd
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- Re: HDTV - truth or fiction? - Lasermeister 17:26:11 07/24/02 (1)
- Thanks! - newtoHT 11:36:10 07/25/02 (0)
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