Popular Mechanics: Fix your HDTV picture

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Ben Mishoe @ Jul 6th 2006 11:39AM

You know, this kind of brings up a good point...in the same sense that some HDTV manufacturers have false advertising by calling their 1024x720 resolution HD, I think that content providers should be subject to some of the same requirements (they may already be...I don't know for sure but it doesn't seem like it).
I mean, you can call something HD because you recorded it or sent it to the affiliates in atleast 1280x720, but if there's so much compression that it doesn't even meet DVD quality standards, then what's the point of all that resolution?
In other words, I think technically you could have a terrible picture that meets resolution standards (as I've heard of some of the conversions onto HD-DVD/BD have been), but I don't really consider that HD.

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