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Rhetorical questionsâ€¦

Posted by David Aiken on September 24, 2007 at 00:07:24:
I wish at times there was a particular punctuation mark that could be used to signify a rhetorical question. I knew Harry Pearson was older than I am, and I'm 60; and as I said in a thread below, standard def 576p upscaled to 768p on my 32" LCD screen actually looks better to me than the same film does in a theatre. That is most definitely *MY* eyes because friends present at the same screening don't report the problems I do with the picture quality in the theatre.

I can definitely see a difference, and an improvement, swapping from the standard def transmission of a program available in high def here in Australia to the separate high def transmission from the same station. I think standard def DVDs look a little better than standard def digital TV transmissions to me, but not as good as high def picture quality, but that is making judgements based on different source programs since I haven't had a chance to compare any program with something I own on standard def DVD.

My holdout on BD has basically been the fact that I'm waiting for a machine which handles all the high def audio formats. I personally haven't been in doubt about superior picture quality based on what I've seen of a couple of films playing in shop demos.

David Aiken