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Great Opinion Piece in PC World: Do Not Buy The Latest Techno Fad!
Do not rush into purchasing the "latest" techno fad in any product category, according to columnist Stephen Manes of PC WORLD:
"The forthcoming Blu-ray players will be able to deliver high-definition video in the 1080p format, or 1080 progressive lines of information every 60th of a second."
"Plenty of current TVs can display that format--but their makers don't mention that the sets' inputs typically accept only the half-as-much-info-at-once interlaced 1080i format, which internal circuitry upconverts."
"The resulting image is far from chopped liver, but since 1080p is likely to remain the highest-res standard for a long time, why get stuck with a display that can't handle it without conversion?"
Jerry Jones
"The forthcoming Blu-ray players will be able to deliver high-definition video in the 1080p format, or 1080 progressive lines of information every 60th of a second."
"Plenty of current TVs can display that format--but their makers don't mention that the sets' inputs typically accept only the half-as-much-info-at-once interlaced 1080i format, which internal circuitry upconverts."
"The resulting image is far from chopped liver, but since 1080p is likely to remain the highest-res standard for a long time, why get stuck with a display that can't handle it without conversion?"
Jerry Jones
