Sony & Panasonic understand HDTV is confusing and want to help

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Sean @ Aug 19th 2006 2:13PM

Ignorant executive pricks brought this upon themselves. It's confusing because there is no standard anywhere and there are so many options when there don't need to be.

Examples:
Some TV's come with HD tuner, some don't. Unexcusable. All should come with one and be able to pick up OTA broadcasts with an antenna.

3 different resolutions - there should be ONE. 720p vs 1080i vs 1080p is ridiculous. If it was just "HD" and you didnt have to use these arcane numbers to differentiate between 3 different types, maybe that would help. No one used to care, let alone know, that their TV was 480i, it was just "TV" and it worked. HD should be the same.

Too many connection options... Component, DVI, HDMI...

AACS - if you dont have HDMI will you be able to watch Blu-ray discs in a few years from now? What if your DVI-only TV doenst have HDCP support?

The fact that most HDTV's don't even have the number of pixels of the HD video they're displaying and have to scale it. Sure it still looks good, but the fact that most LCD and Plasma's don't go above 1360x768 and 1024x1024 respectively is a joke.

On and on it goes... the whole industry is just stupid and it's too bad because HD is fantastic and they've ruined a brilliant oppurtunity.

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