Quote Originally Posted by Rich-n-Texas
This is a statement I find absolutely rediculous:

Or are you just joking?

Let's talk in the here-and-now dude. Just because you don't care about DVD technology, it's advantages and shortcomings, doesn't mean the 1,000,000's of others who buy and rent them don't. Like it or not pix, DVD is today's technology, but once again, you're injecting your own personal preferences and ignoring Pat P.'s original observations and opinions. I'm willing to bet the people here who've pointed out this characteristic of yours in the past don't post in threads that you participate in anymore for just that reason. Too bad too because there's a lot of wisdom and helpful information to be had.

I don't spend a lot of time analyzing or trying to educate myself on matters such as interlaced vs progressive, 380 lines vs 768 lines, I'm more concerned with the end result. What I have now with my DLP vs what I had on my 27" CRT just blows me away. I'm happy with what I've got. And like recoveryone said, "If it makes you happy is all that really matters anyway." You come on like people don't know what makes them happy and you're here to tell them what does make them happy. I've worked with an engineer for the past five years who's just like you so I have a good idea about what makes people like you tick.

Live and let live dude... JMO.
WHERE TO START
1) If it makes you happy to buy an inferiour product at almost (or more) than a superiour
product fine, whatever floats your boat, but like you said people cruise these sites
for info, and the person who started this thread is so far off the mark I had to respond
with a few inconvienent things called facts.
To let stand the total nonsense this guy posted would be the height of irresponsibility.
He is actually saying that a INTERLACED source is better than an INTERLACED
source! DVD is INTERLACED 480 lines!
As for not caring about things like resolution, etc, its easy to see you are in the marketing end of your company, with people like your engineer friend bursting your bubble all of the time with these messy little "facts".
Trutth is, you work for a company that produces a display device that is greyscale, and
charges so much that you cant use three to get color, and have no clue that even as we speak the marketplace is answering back with a resounding NO WAY
But I digress, if the person who started this thread is happy with his inferior way of watching things fine, but get your facts right, okay?
AS for "who cares about dvd" I am talking about the fact that the tech is mature, you wont get any more out of it, not to mention people who get HDTV tell me that they watch DVD less and less, the picture compared to HD just doesnt cut it.
Sure its good compared to NTSC broadcasts but what isnt?
As for contrast, color saturation, etc, I havent found ANYBODY who thinks standard def is better that high def, which is basically what you're saying
Plasmas have the same black level problems that all of the new display formats have,
and have serious burn-in and longetivity issues.
But the most galling thing is the complete misrepresentation of your original post.
You quoted a site that is ten years old, and the people on that site arent advocating 480p, they are advocating 720p! (which is at least twice as good as 480p btw)
I might make mistakes, we all do, and I post off the fly on this site, but am right pretty most of the time.
You wanna impress chicks with your "plasma" fine, more power to ya, but dont EVEN
start with saying its "as good" as any high def source
Just state the truth, its an inferiour display tech thats as expensive (or more so) than a lot of better devices out there, the only reason you want one is to say you have a "PLASMA"
TV, which is fine.
But a good picture is just more important to me, is all