480 line plasma

[Mike]

When I expressed concern to the Myer salesman that the expensive
plasma screen only did 480 lines, he reassured me that 576 line was
only for high-definition.
And most of the 16:9 sets were showing distorted 4:3 letterbox
signals. Similar or worse in other shops.
With such ignorance from the industry, what hope is there for the
general public?
How many dumb suckers are rich enough to buy these NTSC-res plasmas here?

[Louis Solomon [SteelBytes]]

> When I expressed concern to the Myer salesman that the expensive
> plasma screen only did 480 lines, he reassured me that 576 line was
> only for high-definition.

as I think you realise, he is/was wrong.

but this is common with such retail stores and any thing techy.
try asking the questions about the computers they sell, and usually they
dont know, or get things wrong.
hey, even the mass media struggles with techy stuff. I've read way to much
incorrect 'facts' in the green guide for example.

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Louis Solomon
www.steelbytes.com

[theinvisableman@catchme.com]

On Fri, 13 Feb 2004 17:31:38 +1100, "Louis Solomon [SteelBytes]"
<louis@steelbytes.spam-is-bad.com> wrote:

>> When I expressed concern to the Myer salesman that the expensive
>> plasma screen only did 480 lines, he reassured me that 576 line was
>> only for high-definition.
>
>as I think you realise, he is/was wrong.
>
>but this is common with such retail stores and any thing techy.
>try asking the questions about the computers they sell, and usually they
>dont know, or get things wrong.
>hey, even the mass media struggles with techy stuff. I've read way to much
>incorrect 'facts' in the green guide for example.


of course if you're talking of channel 7 then 576 lines is high
definition...and the salesman is almost correct (as it's progressive
576 not interlaced)....but the really good high definition is based
around 1080 interlaced......

[mddawson]

A few months ago I was in a Dick Smith Power House and noticed a 480 res Fujitsu plasma with a sign saying it was 'high definition'. Needless to say I pointed out this error to the shop assistant who insisted that its was HD as it accepted a HD input. I couldn't be bothered trying to explain that it was still only displaying a low definition picture regardless of the input signal.

When I got home I checked out the DSE website which had repeated this error. I then checked out Fujitsu which was fine. I told my brother about this as he writes articles about HT equipment as his profession. An email later by him to DSE had them fixing this mistake.

I was silly however, I probably could have forced DSE to supply me with a true HD plasma (or at least the top of the line Fujitsu) for $6000.

[BenOne©]

Mike wrote:
> When I expressed concern to the Myer salesman that the expensive
> plasma screen only did 480 lines, he reassured me that 576 line was
> only for high-definition.
> And most of the 16:9 sets were showing distorted 4:3 letterbox
> signals. Similar or worse in other shops.

ROTFL!

> With such ignorance from the industry, what hope is there for the
> general public?

Bugger all.

> How many dumb suckers are rich enough to buy these NTSC-res plasmas here?

That'd be the majority.

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Ben Thomas
Melbourne, Australia