video games (was Re: UFCS for D)

[Jonathan M Davis]

On Saturday, March 31, 2012 05:37:49 Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> "Walter Bright" <newshound2 at digitalmars.com> wrote in message
> > Dudes, get an HD TV. It really is transformative. 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.
> > 
> > I can't even stand to watch standard def anymore.
> 
> YMMV, but it *honestly* just
> doesn't do much for me. Certainly not enough to blow hundreds of dollars on
> it.
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Personally, I can stand SD less and less, and poorer video quality annoys me 
more and more. But I deal with video-related software for a living, and I've 
transcoded enough video (especially HD video) in my free time that I _really_ 
notice the flaws. There are DVDs that I watched 5 years ago and thought were 
fine that I see now and have a very hard time standing them, because they look 
so bad. There are even encoding issues that I see in blu-rays quite often that 
drive me nuts (especially banding), but that's the best that you can get at 
this point.

My parents, on the other hand, don't have any HD anything, don't see the 
point, and don't seem to care much about video quality at all. So, it really 
depends on what you're used to and what you expect. I've just dealt with video 
encoding and the like in enough detail long enough to get really picky about 
it (my Mother thinks that I'm a snob about video and audio quality). I don't 
have a TV right now (I just watch everything on my computer - 24" 1920 x 1200 
display), but if I did, I sure wouldn't put up with an SD TV. I'd be looking 
to get a high quality, HD TV.

But there's no question that YMMV.

- Jonathan M Davis