The scientific method is a lost art

venk

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So I get an IM from a buddy today who just got his HDTV put in. Exciting time for the guy and everything. Anyways he buys and up converting DVD player, the kind with a button on front lets switch between 480p/720/1080i. He asks me a fairly inocuous question, "which is better, 720p, 1080i" and I told him, "Whatever you think is better."

Apparently, he did not like this answer. He kept badgering me to tell him what the "correct" answer was because he didn't want to compare the two.


Is it really that hard to hit a button to switch resolutions on a scene in a DVD to determine which one you think looks better?

Form a Hypothesis people, test it out, and make up your mind. I can't tell everyone what looks best.
 

IronWing

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You have to remember that I.Q. is inversely proportional to the size of the subject's of TV screen.
 

JujuFish

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Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
just shut the fvck up about the spelling and grammar. I can understand it and so can you.
You're the first person to mention grammar.
 

theNEOone

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Originally posted by: Inspector Jihad
just shut the fvck up about the spelling and grammar. I can understand it and so can you.
it's not about understanding the OP. when you post a message ridiculing others for

- academic insults
- not knowing how to operate/open/fix/assemble equipment/furniture/electronics etc.
- anything even remotely related to some level of competence
- just being plain dumb

and your post has more than one grammatical/spelling error, you're really asking for it. people that ridicule others are easy targets for flaming when they themselves have obvious flaws.


=|
 

Descartes

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Oh come on man, he's your buddy, not a fellow student in a science philosophy 101 class. He asked for your subjective opinion about what is best because he obviously respects your opinion. You give him a flippant quasi-philisophical response.

I agree with what you're trying to say though, but this is partly why geeks present so many social problems. I'm guilty of it myself, so I'm not just chastising you. When someone asks a simple question just give a simple answer.

And yes, this has nothing at all to do with the scientific method.
 

Slew Foot

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<American Consumer>
I buy whatever the man on the screen tells me is better.
</American Consumer>
 

BD2003

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Originally posted by: Trippin315
For fast moving images like sports and action movies 720p is better
Slower moving images (dramas, comedies) 1080i is better.

Which is true in theory, but useless in practice, because there's no HDTV (with a few useless exceptions) that can natively output both.

The correct answer would generally be whatever format your TV outputs at. If its CRT, 1080i. If its DLP or LCD, 720p.

And being even more exacting, up/downscalers on most new HDTVs are pretty good. DVDs are 480i, and theres only so much you can do with 480i source, that 720p isnt going to look appreciably worse than 1080i. Whichever format you spit in, the TV will convert it to whatever it normally spits out.

So in his case, either 720p or 1080i...doesnt really matter. :p

Oh, and youre a douchebag. He asked you because he thought you knew what you were talking about. You took his trust in you and your abilities, and turned it into an opportunity to put him down so you could feel better about yourself.

And the fact that I have in turn, done the exact same thing to you is not lost on me. It is meant to be curiously ironic.

Douche.