The basic premise of this article is flawed. The author assumes that AFN is the primary source of television signals and entertainment viewing for our troops. That's simply not even CLOSE to true.
As for "a military application for 1080i", perhaps if the article author had done even a small amount of research he would have found numerous unclassified and fully disclosed on the web uses of hi resolution displays by our military. I was installing 1280x1024 3 tube CRT projectors on Navy ships 15+ years ago, and even then there were 2kx2k monochrome Hughes light valve projectors on board, so don't think for a moment that our military isn't interested or using high resolution display technology. From submarines to aircraft carriers, large screen high def displays (and access to content to watch on them) have proliferated throughout the Navy and I have no doubt throughout the rest of the services too.
Sorry if I offended your military sensibilities, but even though high res screens are obviously used in other areas, until one of them has TV signals on them, then it's not an HDTV. No one ever said AFN was the only thing troops watch, but unless I'm mistaken, its the primary one produced by Armed Forces personnel and a good way to get programming from home, even overseas.
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The basic premise of this article is flawed. The author assumes that AFN is the primary source of television signals and entertainment viewing for our troops. That's simply not even CLOSE to true.
As for "a military application for 1080i", perhaps if the article author had done even a small amount of research he would have found numerous unclassified and fully disclosed on the web uses of hi resolution displays by our military. I was installing 1280x1024 3 tube CRT projectors on Navy ships 15+ years ago, and even then there were 2kx2k monochrome Hughes light valve projectors on board, so don't think for a moment that our military isn't interested or using high resolution display technology. From submarines to aircraft carriers, large screen high def displays (and access to content to watch on them) have proliferated throughout the Navy and I have no doubt throughout the rest of the services too.
Sorry if I offended your military sensibilities, but even though high res screens are obviously used in other areas, until one of them has TV signals on them, then it's not an HDTV. No one ever said AFN was the only thing troops watch, but unless I'm mistaken, its the primary one produced by Armed Forces personnel and a good way to get programming from home, even overseas.