Re: 1st HD Video Walkman made by Sony

On Sun, 29 Jul 2007 09:58:25 -0400 Matthew L. Martin <nothere@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
| Tantalust wrote:
|> "HD Freak" <hdfreak@xxxxx> wrote in message
|> news:46ac4d21$0$10937$547a23d3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
|>> Sony is gonna release the 1st HD Video Walkman, the GV-HD700E.
|>>
|>> http://www.hdtvinfo.eu/content/view/83/1/
|>>
|>> The GV-HD700E supports the following media formats: HDV, DV SP & DV LP.
|>
|> Cool.
|> Now they can build a true HD display for it?
|
| They claim 1.2 Megapixels. That's done by summing the number of red,
| blue and green subpixels and rounding up. It has 384,000 pixels, only
| slightly better than DVD in the US and slightly worse than DVD in Europe.
|
| Anyone care to venture how large a real 1280x720 or 1920x1080 screen
| would have to be for the human eye be just short of resolving individual
| pixels from an arm's length away?
|
| I'm betting it's a lot more than 7".

You mean venture a guess? I'd say probably 15" for 1280x720 and 21" for
1920x1080. It will, of course, vary from person to person, depending on
that person's ability to see more or less detail.

With a walkman size screen, I'd bet most people can't even tell if it is
HD or just SD. That's why I'm not asking for HD capability in the portable
TV I'm questing for; just digital capability. 256x144 as a native resolution
would serve adequate for such a small screen, at least for me. I might be
able to see more, but in the situations I would use this, I would not care.

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