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From: twhlai@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Tony Lai)
Newsgroups: comp.society.futures
Subject: Re: Recent Article about the Media Lab...
Message-ID: <14429@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
Date: 12 Jun 89 18:21:09 GMT
References: <8906110057.AA24809@bu-cs.BU.EDU>
Reply-To: twhlai@watdragon.waterloo.edu (Tony Lai)
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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.

What size monitor are they using?  The recommended distance for watching
HDTV is between 3 and 4 times the picture height.  The recommended distance
for NTSC is between 6 and 7 times the picture height.  With a 20" monitor,
a distance of 9 feet is 9 times the picture height, so such a result isn't
unexpected.

The Media Lab is a bunch of Nazi, er, NTSC apologists.  If NTSC were
imposed on us by a foreign country, we would consider it an act of war.
At least I would.

Obligatory smiley faces:  :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
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Tony Lai