Re: 5 Things AppleTV needs to be a MUST BUY by Apple Gazette

[Ashley Aitken]

On 07/04/2007, at 11:14 AM, LuKreme wrote:

> I think I speak for the majority when I say that by in large, HD  
> content has simply no appeal for me at all.

I don't want to speak for you or the majority, but I would suggest,  
perhaps, that you (and the majority) haven't experienced real HD  
content in the right setting (screen size, distance from screen etc.)

When I have seen true HD content, in the right setting, it has been  
an order-of-magnitude better experience that standard definition  
digital  TV or traditional analogue TV.

The best way others have described it, and I agree, is that its like  
"looking through a window" (at the world outside).  For me it  
represents an exciting future for video.

The problem with most HD digital TV (in Australia, at least) is that  
it is just upscaled (or whatever you call it) standard definition TV,  
or low-bit rate HD TV.

There's only a small amount of true HD content being broadcast  
(again, in Australia). That, and the fact that there aren't HD TiVos  
for Australia, is why I still watch standard definition digital TV.

Cheers,
Ashley.