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From: klopfens@bgsuvax.UUCP (Bruce Klopfenstein)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Recent Article about the Media Lab...
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Date: 12 Jun 89 02:21:28 GMT
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From article <8906110057.AA24809@bu-cs.BU.EDU>, by bzs@BU-CS.BU.EDU (Barry Shein):
> 
> 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.
> 
> Interesting.
In case my previous response was lost, please note that this research
is very self-serving for MIT.  As I recall, they are working on an
NTSC-compatible system using limited bandwidth.  It is in MIT's interest
to show that viewers don't want 1125 line HDTV (or can't tell the
difference.)  I think this is a very impotant point.

Bruce Klopfenstein

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