Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!convex!schumach From: schumach@convex.com (Richard A. Schumacher) Newsgroups: sci.electronics Subject: Re: I don't need HDTV! Message-ID: <100652@convex.convex.com> Date: 17 Mar 90 00:40:31 GMT References: <8Zx8Ip200ioEMMrHEF@andrew.cmu.edu> <132618@sun.Eng.Sun.COM> <2694@sactoh0.UUCP> <1990Mar13.023805.24765@athena.mit.edu> <1990Mar15.090214.9871@spectre.ccsf.caltech.edu> <7322@celit.fps.com> <1990Mar1 Sender: usenet@convex.com Lines: 9 All NTSC fans should try previewing the Phillips digital monitor (60 Hz frame, non-interlaced) with a video disc as a source. It looks sickly. It beautifully shows all the weaknesses of "NTSC on steroids" and is as good an argument as I've seen for going to HDTV. To heck with backwards-compatibility to a 50-year-old technology!