Of course you’re right, but a few years back:
[wayback machine effect]
I was once escorted to the living room of a friend to see his new 65” rear project TV. “Doesn’t it look great!” as I was carefully positioned dead center about 5 feet away from the thing, which was the only angle in the room where the screen appeared to be fully illuminated edge to edge. “Nice” I replied. He has a bigger LED/LCD now. This guy is an electrical engineer!
Point is, Mr. Joe doesn’t seem to care about picture quality on TV. He’s not complaining that he’s being treated to Youtube blown up to the size of an 18 wheeler… or even noticing. Until the picture breaks up and stalls completely, but even that’s OK cause he was thinking about another trip to the fridge anyway.
Here’s another one:
(I don’t think we’re supposed to notice that the author quotes himself)
Pete O
POP Pictures
Orlando
From: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Wilson Chao
Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2013 11:28 AM
To: Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Avid-L2] Better vs. More
From what I've seen of "Mr. Joe Public" and his viewing habits here in the US, the worst constraint of quality isn't the screen, nor the broadcaster's signal, but the delivery bandwidth. E.g. the Netflix "Super HD" streams run at a paltry 6 mbits/sec.:
http://blog.streamingmedia.com/2013/09/netflix-doubles-video-quality-making-6mbps-superhd-streams-available-everyone.html
How is an average consumer going to see any improved picture at home, with any new screen, if he only gets fed 6 mbps?
On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 10:21 AM, Pete Opotowsky <popix@cfl.rr.com> wrote:
Many of us seem to forget that the recent spike in TV sales had less to do with the quality of the image as the size and shape of the set. Once everyone has replaced their bulky CRT there is little incentive to replace the LCD:
http://money.cnn.com/2013/06/26/technology/innovation/tv-sales/
Pete O
POP Pictures
Orlando
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