Originally Posted by rwr:
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Perhaps if we'd skipped the "HD Ready" stage and moved straight onto "Full HD" then we'd have saved this whole mess anyway, and just had the market standardised on one resolution that actually matched what was being broadcast, and available on BD... I really think the industry has shot itself in the foot to an extent by jumping the gun to get HD TVs out whilst 1080p panels were seen as too expensive.”
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Perhaps if we'd skipped the "HD Ready" stage and moved straight onto "Full HD" then we'd have saved this whole mess anyway, and just had the market standardised on one resolution that actually matched what was being broadcast, and available on BD... I really think the industry has shot itself in the foot to an extent by jumping the gun to get HD TVs out whilst 1080p panels were seen as too expensive.”
The only problem with that is that at the time that EICTA set the original HD standard, 1080 screens weren't available.




