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01/13/09
I'm not hating on baseball in any way, but when it comes to getting the most screen real estate to see more action and excitement that you normally wouldn't, baseball doesn't really take the cake
shit...now I'm hungry.
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I'm not a sports fan, but just this weekend I finally got around to getting HD converter boxes for my cable. And I set it all up just before the Baltimore Ravens / Tennessee Titans game. All I can say is that if I were a big sports fan I would have done this ages ago, because it was everything I imagined it would be. The images on my 22" LCD TV were spectacularly crisp and vibrant. It's nice to be able to read names on uniforms, even from a distance. It was as close to being there as you're likely to get until some sort of credible 3D component is added.
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Probably on Craigslist.
01/13/09
I've mentioned before that widescreen and HD are meaningless to me, and the insane cost makes it a no-brainer for me to stick with my current SD television (which is plenty big for my libngroom size). I watch some baseball, and the SD and 4:3 suit me just fine, and my DVD's look good enough to me.
I've watch HD programming, and watched movies on Bluray on a widescreen HD set, and yes, it's nice, I guess. But certainly not worth the crazy money I could be spending on other things.
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I would even take a widescreen TV in SD (which they did make for a short time) over HD in 4:3 (which also was made for a time).
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01/13/09
You are right.
I've been to TV studios, and anyone that has seen a TV camera from behind would see that the camera actually SEEs more that what it transmits. There is a digital frame (rectangle) overlaid that shows the cameraman the actual trasmitted area so he can "frame" the scene for best viewing.
Now with HDTV's things do not change... the image is wider not taller. So the cameraman cannot zoom in any further on the action to fill the sides without cutting top and bottom.
Still the HDTV action will be better for the picture overall....
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