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In Reply to: ...and all that totally irrelevant HD jazz... posted by Victor Khomenko on February 28, 2006 at 13:31:48:

then it's no big deal.
I love music, but I could give a flying whatever to worrying about the sonics of some new $100 fangle A/C power receptacle (the latest fad on the tweaker's forum). Some guys do, whatever.
The promise of Hi-Def was for the average joe to be able to go with larger TV/projector screens. On my 64" RPTV, it makes a big difference, as compared to standard def.
I have just a handful of cable and broadcast HD channels, and yes, sometimes it hard to find decent content. Plus the video/audio dropouts, screwed up sound fields, antenna reception issues, etc.
But I do rent 8-12 movies a month. The possibility of some day my local movie rental store offering HD movies has me very excited.
Look at it this way, at least you can sit out this next format war with no worries.

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No worries is correct - Victor Khomenko 17:56:24 02/28/06 (4)
I do not expect to be seeing the titles I would want to watch, in HD for long, long, long time. And then some. We too rent three to four movies a week, and I know full well they will not be on HD.
If they do, that will be fine with me. One night there was The Sounds of Music on cable in HD, and I watched it for a while... it was... well... nice...
Speaking of large screen TV's... most people who buy them do so because of their size and flatness, not because they play HD.
- Yes, and most people who buy those.... - Hepcat 09:08:38 03/01/06 (3)
  ...big widescreen sets will leave the damn things on that stretch mode all the freaking time even though over 95% of all programming is still in 4x3 mode. I hate that stretched and smushed picture.
  - The ugly reality - Victor Khomenko 11:40:16 03/01/06 (2)
    There is really no simple answer to stretch mode. Staring at sidebars ain't too pretty either. On our Pioneer plasma, where we usualy watch the normal cable channels, I ended up selecting one mode, don't recall which one. Out of four or five modes that one gives least obnoxious distortion, at the price of cropping the picture top and bottom just a bit. Overall I prefer this to grey side bars.
    - Not you too, Victor. - Hepcat 13:24:37 03/01/06 (1)
      Worlds are colliding!
      - Image junkies of the world unite! (nt) - Victor Khomenko 17:43:30 03/01/06 (0)
        
        In Reply to: Not you too, Victor. posted by Hepcat on March 1, 2006 at 13:24:37:
        
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