 | | | TV Screen Sizes (slightly OT) | TV Screen Sizes (slightly OT) 2004-02-16 - By D Evers
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As a more on-topic remark about renderings and HT setups.
I have on my system 3 primary rendering engines.
trueSpace
Imagine
Aladdin4D (Amiga emulator)
The quality difference between them at lower resolutions is not all that
different. But, when I expand it upto a 720p resolution, the TS renderings have
qualities that could be called "eyecandy".
Also, the format you store them in after rendering is important.
As firewire devices (most popular is D-VHS) have come down in price, large
format storage is more affordable.
I like the idea of the memory stick. Alot of the projectors from NEC, Samsung,
Sanyo, Toshiba, and Infocus now support SD/CF media readers.
<off topic>
[In order to counter the "significant-other-factor", I brought home the Infocus
from work and hung a bedsheet across the wall studs during construction...she
gave it her blessing and a year later, everything was finished]
<on topic>
It will be very interesting to see what finally develops with the HD-DVD
standards and which players come to market.
I remember back in the TS2/Raydream Studio 4 days, I used the berkely MPEG
encoder setup on 5 SCO OpenServer boxes at school. They were used to encode 900
frames of animation I did for a class into a single MPEG-1 (See http://PEG-1.ora-code.com) file.
352x240@(protected) with 8bit stereo. I cut it to tape on a 66MHz PowerMac 8100
with its built in AV card.
And today, the battle is over 18GB dual layer DVDs vs 27GB D-VHS with 3GHz
rendering farms.
-Dwight
--- Dave Angelini <dpangelini@(protected)> wrote:
> Dwight,
>
> Nice home set-up....you don't happen to live in NH do you? ;-)
>
> The rendering was to help me understand exactly what I am getting in terms
> of screen size over my existing 27" TV with the new larger HDTV's now on the
> market. The rendering helped me understand that a 34" widescreen TV is
> really only as high as my current 27" TV and about 5 inches wider. At
> around $2000 to $2500, I kept wondering what I was really getting for an
> extra 2.5 inches on a side (or $500 per additional inch of screen width).
>
> The rendering helped convince me it was not worth it. It also showed that a
> 34" widescreen was only slightly (0.8 inches) wider than a 36" standard TV
> (4:3)....and again, the 36" standard TV was around $800 cheaper than the 34"
> widescreen (same model and features...both were Sony XBR series). But alas,
> everything is going widescreen so that did not make sense either.
>
> So the rendering helped show me exactly what I was getting in terms of
> overall screen size in comparison to what I am getting now with my 27" TV
> screen...similar to what you did with your area calculations.
>
> As far as RP or FP TV's, the wife has nixed those.....all TV's must go in an
> entertainment amoire and therefore be covered up by doors when not in use.
> So with this new TV is another search for a larger entertainment
> center.....yet another headache.
>
> Better to wait. At a 2% price drop per month on average, time is on my
> side.
>
> Thanks,
> Dave Angelini
>
> BTW: The Sony TV's come with front side memory stick ports (unfortunately a
> format unique to Sony digital cameras)....therefore it is possible that you
> could exhibit you tS renderings on your TV.....I just had to bring it back
> to slightly on-topic.
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