Re: It's time to ban widescreen.
- From: that parrot chap <kev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 31 Dec 2005 09:51:42 +0000
On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 21:04:59 -0000, "Tito" <ortiz@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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>"half_pint" <me@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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>> Due to it's inherent lack of height a widesceen picture is tremendously
>> wasteful in terms of energy usage and bandwidth.
>> Typically half of the image displayed is wasted which means a widescreen
>> TV uses approximately twice as much energy a more sensibly sizeed screen
>> (4:3 for example). Also from a bandwidth point of view about twice as
>> bandwidth is needed to display a given number of channels. The upshot of
>> this
>> is we need to use twice as many channels (muxes) to cover agiven number of
>> channels. If 4:3 was used we would need only 3 muxes, which could probably
>> be transmitted at higher powers requiring less expensive aerials, boosters
>> and
>> high quality cabling.
>>
>> Widescreen is responsible for a huge waste of energy creating millions of
>> tons
>> of greenhouse gases (anyone care to put a figure to it?) and would be
>> outlawed
>> by any competant authority.
>>
>> So is it not high time this foolish format was consigned to it's rightful
>> place
>> ie the dustbin?
>>
>>
>
Can I please have some of whatever this guy is on, sounds just the
trick for a great new years eve party!
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