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[arwalden]

THE BLACK BARS ON THE TOP AND BOTTOM ARE NORMAL.

[DS1]

1. I love it when I'm in earshot of people watching commercials for HDTV

on regular TVs and one of them invariably says "Wow, it's so clear!"

*slap*

[NoPasaran]

2. Reminds me of commercials for color TV

As seen on my parents' ancient Magnovox

[BigDaddyLove]

3. I fully realize I may be slapped for saying this..............

however when I have seen commercials for HDTV on a 'regular' set, the images are of a higher quality than those produced by SD.

Slap away.

[DS1]

4. *slap*

[northzax]

6. actually you may be right

one thing they do in HDTV ads is to use a lower resolution in the surrounding image, to increase the difference you see, and make you think it's clearer.

Also, since it's a commercial, they have the time and resources to clean up all the noise, and shoot the ad in the higest resolution possible, so it will appear better than broadcast TV.

[arwalden]

5. Kinda Like Those BOSE Wave Radio Ads That You Hear...

... on REGULAR radios.

Oooh! Yes! I caa-a-a-an tell a difference. Ni-i-ice! Wow! I'll have to get me one of those.

However... $499 is a bit much for a dresser-top radio... IMO.

-- Allen

P.S. You don't think the commercial producers INTENTIONALLY modify the "regular" example to sound like it's coming out of a tin horn megaphone do you?

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