Were you an early HDTV adopter? Does your TV only have component inputs?

[CPA]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: CPA
I did until I just sold it for $750 (5 year old Mitsu that only did 1080i) 😀

Will be getting plasma soon.

aww, you didn't get the "promise" module that mistsubishi put out? "we promise your TV will never be obsolete for HD"

I don't recall much about it as I also have a 5 year old mits HDTV. But I "think" the module does HDCP and provided digital inputs.

May be the case, but the huge box was just taking up too much space in the bedroom.

 

[BDawg]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: CPA
I did until I just sold it for $750 (5 year old Mitsu that only did 1080i) 😀

Will be getting plasma soon.

aww, you didn't get the "promise" module that mistsubishi put out? "we promise your TV will never be obsolete for HD"

I don't recall much about it as I also have a 5 year old mits HDTV. But I "think" the module does HDCP and provided digital inputs.

No, it didn't. The promise module only included firewire and an HD tuner for those machines that didn't have it.

Mitsubishi owners got royally screwed.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: BDawg
No, it didn't. The promise module only included firewire and an HD tuner for those machines that didn't have it.

Mitsubishi owners got royally screwed.

heh, I remember when it came out. "this sucks"

But at the same time my 5 year old mits rivals (and in ways surpasses) my DLP and plasma.

 

[Schfifty Five]

Originally posted by: MrBond
Saw this on Slashdot this morning:

http://blog.scifi.com/tech/archives/ear...ters_screwed_by_hddisc_rules.html#more

What it boils down to is this. The people developing AACS have designed it so that unless the picture is transmitted from the DVD player to the TV in purely digital format (and therefore, can carry the copy protection along with it), the resolution displayed on the television will be 960 x 540 pixels - which is 1/4 the resolution of normal HD-DVD content.

Most early HDTV's only had component inputs. They estimate between 3 and 6.6 million TV's are out there that will be affected by this copy protection.

No idea what sort of copy protection Blue Ray will have or if it will do anything like this. This seems like a pretty boneheaded move on the part of the HD-DVD consortium - if it boils down to being able to watch HD content at full resolution with BlueRay and component inputs or watching it at 1/4 the resolution with HD-DVD - I can't see many people going the HD-DVD route.

Wait, 960 is 3/4 of 1280, and 540 is 3/4 of 720, so aren't you only losing 1/4? It said 960x540 is 1/4 the resolution, but isn't it really 3/4?

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: Schfifty Five
Wait, 960 is 3/4 of 1280, and 540 is 3/4 of 720, so aren't you only losing 1/4? It said 960x540 is 1/4 the resolution, but isn't it really 3/4?

not to bust your chops or anything, but geometry wasn't your strong point was it?

 

[PurdueRy]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: Schfifty Five
Wait, 960 is 3/4 of 1280, and 540 is 3/4 of 720, so aren't you only losing 1/4? It said 960x540 is 1/4 the resolution, but isn't it really 3/4?

not to bust your chops or anything, but geometry wasn't your strong point was it?

^ QFT

Think area's dude

 

[Schfifty Five]

Originally posted by: PurdueRy

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: Schfifty Five
Wait, 960 is 3/4 of 1280, and 540 is 3/4 of 720, so aren't you only losing 1/4? It said 960x540 is 1/4 the resolution, but isn't it really 3/4?

not to bust your chops or anything, but geometry wasn't your strong point was it?

^ QFT

Think area's dude

Yeah I realized that .... but the math still doesn't add up.

1280 * 720 = 921600

960 * 540 = 518400

Tell me how 518,400 is 1/4 of 921,600?

 

[PurdueRy]

1,920 x 1,080 = HD DVD

 

[Schfifty Five]

Originally posted by: PurdueRy
1,920 x 1,080 = HD DVD

Ahhh...now i see, thanks.

 

[PurdueRy]

Originally posted by: Schfifty Five

Originally posted by: PurdueRy
1,920 x 1,080 = HD DVD

Ahhh...now i see, thanks.

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