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I may be stupid here, but I've been combing over the ATSC website as well as the federal government's DTV website, and nowhere can I find any regulation regarding horizontal resolution in the HDTV standard. Now, for a 16:9 screen it's easy to do the math and come up with 1280x720 or 1920x1080 assuming square pixels, but, again, nowhere on the government's website can I find a reference to this. I can't findany reference to square pixels, either. The only reference I've found so far is defining vertical resolution.

Can anyone point to where horizontal resolution is specified for HDTV by the feds? Thanks.]]>Nov 9th 2005 7:31AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2005/11/08/dont-make-these-hdtv-mistakes/http://www.engadgethd.com/2005/11/08/dont-make-these-hdtv-mistakes/Nov 9th 2005 2:51PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2005/11/08/dont-make-these-hdtv-mistakes/http://www.engadgethd.com/2005/11/08/dont-make-these-hdtv-mistakes/Nov 9th 2005 10:54AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2005/11/08/dont-make-these-hdtv-mistakes/http://www.engadgethd.com/2005/11/08/dont-make-these-hdtv-mistakes/
There are two so far that do however. HP has got a DLP that does, and JVC will have a new LCOS model coming out at the end of the month that is supposed to. We will see this in other sets next year. - true

Cablecard will not give you a guide, VOD, etc. - true

Sets with CableCard WILL NOT except the new CableCard 2.0 next year that will give you all of those things you miss over the 1.0. - true

CableCard 2.0 even will not work when you cable provider switches to MPEG-4. - true

So basically, CableCard is worthless. - true

Cable carries the locals in HD - not always true

Multipath is a real problem for DTV OTA broadcasts. - true more often than not

HD is only broadcast on UHF - not true

In fact, the UHF channels are on loan, when the changeover happens, the stations will have DTV on their regular frequency. Guess what, current ATSC set tops are having real problems tuning DTV on VHF.

Just FYI off the top of my head]]>Nov 9th 2005 11:01AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2005/11/08/dont-make-these-hdtv-mistakes/http://www.engadgethd.com/2005/11/08/dont-make-these-hdtv-mistakes/
CABLE WILL LOOK BETTER - Not at all. Analog Cable is going to look like complete crap. SDTV Digital Cable and DirecTV as well, as you can now see the MPEG artifacts clear as day. This stuff was normally hidden by the low-res and scanlines of regular TV. Also, nothing at all analog is 16x9 so get used to squished looking people, or black bars on the sides.]]>Nov 9th 2005 11:07AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2005/11/08/dont-make-these-hdtv-mistakes/http://www.engadgethd.com/2005/11/08/dont-make-these-hdtv-mistakes/
1. spending more that $20 for a DVI or HMDI cable. This can be a very easy $200 mistake at some of the box stores -- many don't even have a sanely priced digital video cable.

2. Hooking the cable box up with svideo or oh-good-lord-not composite cables when component or better box is avaiable for their cable company for the asking.]]>Nov 9th 2005 4:59PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2005/11/08/dont-make-these-hdtv-mistakes/http://www.engadgethd.com/2005/11/08/dont-make-these-hdtv-mistakes/Nov 10th 2005 9:49AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2005/11/08/dont-make-these-hdtv-mistakes/http://www.engadgethd.com/2005/11/08/dont-make-these-hdtv-mistakes/just download tv WITHOUT COMERCIALS
thanks to the pirates :D - good job.. at least someone is looking out for OUR BEST INTERESTS = having a good time.
playback on computer connected to projector :D
turn up sub and shake the walls.]]>Nov 10th 2005 9:28AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2005/11/08/dont-make-these-hdtv-mistakes/http://www.engadgethd.com/2005/11/08/dont-make-these-hdtv-mistakes/Nov 9th 2005 11:02PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2005/11/08/dont-make-these-hdtv-mistakes/http://www.engadgethd.com/2005/11/08/dont-make-these-hdtv-mistakes/Nov 10th 2005 12:49AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2005/11/08/dont-make-these-hdtv-mistakes/http://www.engadgethd.com/2005/11/08/dont-make-these-hdtv-mistakes/thanks to the pirates :D - good job.. at least someone is looking out for OUR BEST INTERESTS = having a good time.
playback on computer connected to projector :D
turn up sub and shake the walls]]>Nov 10th 2005 9:40AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2005/11/08/dont-make-these-hdtv-mistakes/http://www.engadgethd.com/2005/11/08/dont-make-these-hdtv-mistakes/
Toshiba 30" Widescreen HD-Ready Flat-Tube TV with HDMI Input
Model: 30HF85

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Btw.. If the FCC were smart, they'd just eliminate the 2-6 portion of the band and give it to FM radio.

-A]]>Nov 10th 2005 12:16PMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2005/11/08/dont-make-these-hdtv-mistakes/http://www.engadgethd.com/2005/11/08/dont-make-these-hdtv-mistakes/Nov 13th 2005 10:29AMhttp://www.engadgethd.com/2005/11/08/dont-make-these-hdtv-mistakes/http://www.engadgethd.com/2005/11/08/dont-make-these-hdtv-mistakes/Nov 14th 2005 5:53PM