Roberto Ragusa: >> Laptop resolution of more than 1920x1080 is almost extinct. >> Damned HDTV economy of scale is killing any other format. Ian Pilcher: > That's the story, but it doesn't hold water ... unless there's a part of > the world where people are buying a lot of 13" and 15" HDTVs. I read the /damnation/ as being that the laptops are being produced, mostly, for people doing rather dumb computing and watching DVDs on their laptop, so the manufacturers are only producing laptop screens with only a high enough resolution for those jobs. Rather than the medium resolution LCD panels being produced for laptops and domestic television screens. I don't know about elsewhere, but here in Australia, high resolution TV has been a bit of a flop. We only have about 3 high res TV channels out of about 16, and much of what they put to air is standard resolution, anyway. And, oddly enough, one of the better looking programs is a 1980s UK TV program shot using 900 line resolution tube cameras; bumped up to high res it looks very nice, compare that to modern 4:3 CCD studio cameras which rarely went above 750 line resolution. Then there's the several heavily compressed standard resolution channels from the same station that looks like VHS is being put to air. And people don't seem to be complaining about it, nor even noticing. Seriously, why buy a $1000+ high res TV set when there's little of it to watch. -- [tim@localhost ~]$ uname -r 2.6.27.25-78.2.56.fc9.i686 Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
