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[Ted Langdell]

Ted Langdell
Ted Langdell Creative Broadcast Services
Marysville, CA
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On Jan 12, 2007, at 7:16 PM, Bob Friesenhahn wrote:

> The most terrible thing about them is that the broadcasters, cable  
> networks, and satellite re-transmitters crank up the compression  
> ratios until the point that the compression becomes noticeable on a  
> 32 inch TV. That means that the compression artifacts may be  
> appalling on a larger screen. There is little incentive to reduce  
> compression.


Try walking into a store like Sears that has the same content on two  
in-store channels, one SD and the other HD... and then see how many  
HD sets are tuned to the SD channel and see what BIG difference is  
visible.

It ain't helping to sell HDTV sets with ASTC tuners.

Ted.