video games (was Re: UFCS for D)

[Walter Bright]

On 3/31/2012 6:53 AM, Adam D. Ruppe wrote:
> On Saturday, 31 March 2012 at 07:02:35 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
>> And yes, it kills me that my expensive old large screen standard def TV is
>> just a POS in comparison, even though it is in perfect working order.
>
> It might help that I have smaller tv sets. I have a 19" and
> a 13", and they have beautiful pictures.

Not really. I have an ipod with the retina display, and the older one with the 
low res display. It's a tiny screen. Casually, they look the same.

But the retina display really does make a big difference! It's just a lot less 
eyestrain to read text on it, for one thing. And it just looks crisper.

I hope Amazon's next Kindle Fire will have a high res display, if it does I'll 
upgrade just for that. I'm glad Apple has raised the bar on this.


> Something that I found really interesting is even
> on my old tvs, the new digital broadcasts actually
> do look pretty good - better than cable and satellite.

That's because your cable provider is compressing the image, and the 
over-the-air broadcasts do not.