You know I've been saying this for a while. I've got the Sharp Aquos 52D62U. Looks awesome, but I still want larger, but 65 is probably as large as reasonable for the size of my room or any room I've ever put a tv in.
Just for the record I also use the tv as my computer monitor. For HD tv viewing it's great, but for computer use I can still see pixelation on my 52. If you stay at 1080P on a 65 it'll be horrible.
Using the tv as a monitor is becoming increasingly common. Several of my friends have done it and the rest want to. So if the average tv ends up maxing out around 65 then your going to have to increase the resolution. I think in two years the standard resolution on 55+ tv's will be 1440.
Ok so here's my question. Do people really believe that if there's enough tv's out there at this resolution that they won't want to make disks that can display it. I mean 1080p movies will have competition from HD tv, downloadable movies, hd on demand, ... all which will be the same resolution as the current HD disks, well 1080i instead of p. Don't you think the movie industry would love to start selling the higher resolution disks. I mean they get to sell us all those movies again. Also you know people will want the higher resolution disks and when there's demand someone will fill it.
This has been one of my arguments against HD-DVD for a while now. From my calculations the size of the movies for 1440 will run between 40-60gbs depending on the length of the movie. That's going to put half of the movies outside the range of HD-DVD even if they get that 51gb disk to work. So even if HD-DVD wins now Blu-ray will make a come back later just because it'll be the only medium capable of handling the new resolution.
Just to be fair though. I should note that even if Blu-ray wins. When they come out with higher resolution players, you'll still have to get a new player and still be buying the disks again so this argument doesn't really have an effect on the war right now. They only benefit would be an easier transition since the new players would be instantly backwards compatible with your current disks.
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You know I've been saying this for a while. I've got the Sharp Aquos 52D62U. Looks awesome, but I still want larger, but 65 is probably as large as reasonable for the size of my room or any room I've ever put a tv in.
Just for the record I also use the tv as my computer monitor. For HD tv viewing it's great, but for computer use I can still see pixelation on my 52. If you stay at 1080P on a 65 it'll be horrible.
Using the tv as a monitor is becoming increasingly common. Several of my friends have done it and the rest want to. So if the average tv ends up maxing out around 65 then your going to have to increase the resolution. I think in two years the standard resolution on 55+ tv's will be 1440.
Ok so here's my question. Do people really believe that if there's enough tv's out there at this resolution that they won't want to make disks that can display it. I mean 1080p movies will have competition from HD tv, downloadable movies, hd on demand, ... all which will be the same resolution as the current HD disks, well 1080i instead of p. Don't you think the movie industry would love to start selling the higher resolution disks. I mean they get to sell us all those movies again. Also you know people will want the higher resolution disks and when there's demand someone will fill it.
This has been one of my arguments against HD-DVD for a while now. From my calculations the size of the movies for 1440 will run between 40-60gbs depending on the length of the movie. That's going to put half of the movies outside the range of HD-DVD even if they get that 51gb disk to work. So even if HD-DVD wins now Blu-ray will make a come back later just because it'll be the only medium capable of handling the new resolution.
Just to be fair though. I should note that even if Blu-ray wins. When they come out with higher resolution players, you'll still have to get a new player and still be buying the disks again so this argument doesn't really have an effect on the war right now. They only benefit would be an easier transition since the new players would be instantly backwards compatible with your current disks.