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From: peter@celia.UUCP (Peter Farson)
Newsgroups: comp.graphics
Subject: Re: HDTV
Message-ID: <598@celia.UUCP>
Date: 21 Mar 90 09:34:58 GMT
References: <1990Mar15.202510.4924@sun.soe.clarkson.edu> <1902@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU>
Reply-To: celia!peter@tis.llnl.gov (Peter Farson)
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In article <1902@mit-amt.MEDIA.MIT.EDU> wave@media-lab.media.mit.edu (Michael B. Johnson) writes:
>(P. D. Yapa) writes:
>I have to disagree.  I have a 40" HDTV monitor and 1/2" Hi-Vision deck, and the 
>image quality is nice, but I wouldn't say it would knock anybody's socks off.
> .......

I've seen a few HDTV video displays, and the one thing I find disappointing
about them is that they are interlaced.  Interlacing adds a buzzy quality that
prevents a still image from looking truly still, as it does on a hires
non-interlaced monitor.


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