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Info on the introduction of low-resolution TV.
Esbo
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http://europa.eu.int/comm/information_society/evaluation/pdf/report1693_en.pdf
"concerning the costs generated by 16:9 or even aesthetic questions raised by its use"
"the common aim of manufacturers and retailers was, through the introduction of new TV models, to raise the
average price for TV sets."
"Indeed today, the French TV producers consider 16:9 "more as the TV fiction format than as the TV
format of the Future" "
"concerning the costs generated by 16:9 or even aesthetic questions raised by its use"
"the common aim of manufacturers and retailers was, through the introduction of new TV models, to raise the
average price for TV sets."
"Indeed today, the French TV producers consider 16:9 "more as the TV fiction format than as the TV
format of the Future" "
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It obviously didn't work. TVs cost about half what they did 10 years ago.
No one cares if you like widescreen or not. Get over it. Keep your old 4:3 set - no one is forcing you to upgrade.
I didn't see many £6,000 TVs ten years ago, prices
for standard TVs have fallen, widescreen bumped up the
prices considerably. To get a set with the equlivant of a 28"
4:3 TV which I could buy for less than £200 (If I could find
one in the shops) I would have to speed £400+ on a widescreen set, a good doubling in price.
I paid £300 last year for a 28" widescreen pure flat TV.
True if you want to go for a vast screen, there is now the option to do so, for a price, but you can get a lot more TV for your money nowadays as you could 10 years ago.
The resolution is the same, not lower.
I am being forced to upgrade because of the butchered 4:3
being transmitted which would look better on a widescreen set although albeit still shit.
Anyhow if widescreen annoys me why can't I annoy people
who like widescreen? Bit of a hypocritical little so and so are we?
If you're talking plasmas, when the company I work for started making them they cost nearly £10,000. Now they start at just over £1000 for a set with much higher resolution and more facilities - and that's in well under 10 years.
this was my first look, am sure i could find more.
£6000?????? what are you on????£3000 for current tvs is top of the range plasma/lcd. You are not comparing like for like.
Your 28" WS is the equilivant of a 14" portable 4:3 though which you can get for £49 or less.
£300 would probably buy you two 28" 4:3 under the current trend, so the price has more than doubled.
Try measuring one. A 28" widescreen is about the same height as a 25" 4:3.
Esbo, I understand what you mean - zoomed 4:3 means that only a certain proportion of the bandwidth being used is seen on screen (the remaining edges being cut off).
However, on the other hand, constantly opening threads on here complaining about the issue won't get it resolved. It just makes people angry.
I use a 4:3 TV (25") but on most channels the blocking isn't that bad, probably because I have 95% signal strength over all muxes. However, if I was to have a widescreen TV of the same size, the blocking wouldn't disappear - it'd still be just as visible as it would on a 4:3 TV.
The truth is that the bigger a TV is (be it 4:3 or 16:9), the worse the blocking effects will get.
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Don't be such a tw*t :rolleyes:
You shouldn't call another forum member a twit. It's rude.
Do you really think that if anamorphic widescreen didn't exist the picture quality would actually look any better?
All that would happen is broadcasters would be more keen to use lower resolutions for 4:3 channels.
Because, as you say, its widescreen that annoys you. But as you now ask why you cant annoy others..............i'll leave that to the mods.
Going off topic a bit VCR's once cost £300+ now they are sub £50, so the manufacturers have moved onto something else (DVDR) where there are margins to be had.
No one is forcing you to buy a 16:9 set. But you will be forced to have a digital receiver between 2008 and 2012. There is an election coming up, ask the candidates :sleep:
Also, just because you dislike something doesn't automatically give you the right to annoy those who like it - comment against the thing you dislike if you must, but its not really fair to badger people over and over.
We get it - Esbo hates widescreen. Might I suggest you complain to OFCOM instead?
Then don't buy a widescreen tv - It's that simple - No one is holding a gun to your head.
For someone so keen on the ol' abuse report (not to mention the entertaining threats of libel ), you're getting a bit abusive, aren't you?
Might want to tone it down a bit - after all, you wouldn't want a summons landing through your door would you?
:rolleyes: