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From: peter@ficc.uu.net (Peter da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Recent Article about the Media Lab...
Message-ID: <4498@ficc.uu.net>
Date: 11 Jun 89 15:26:44 GMT
References: <8906110057.AA24809@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Organization: Xenix Support
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In article <8906110057.AA24809@bu-cs.BU.EDU>, bzs@BU-CS.BU.EDU (Barry Shein) writes:
> There was a little spot about the Media Lab the other day in the
> Boston Globe. Someone they interviewed there claimed that at any
> distance over 9 feet people couldn't distinguish between HDTV and the
> current standard. He couldn't understand how $500M of research into
> HDTV could have failed to notice this.

This assumes a fairly standard size TV screen. This is going to be true of
any technology thanks to the limited resolution of the human eye.

However it's likely to make a significant difference to wide-screen TV.

(not to mention cheap hi-res monitors for us nerds)
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