Thanks for the squirrely advice!
[ B.O.Y.S.: Boys On Your Screen (The Message Board) ] Written by Sensitive Stephen am 24 Apr 2001 12:08:46:
As an answer to: The problem is... written by boyBooster am 24 Apr 2001 04:43:17:
Yes, I'm thinking along those lines, too, about the monitor. I'm a fairly patient person, and I enjoy anticipating things that I want. For example, when I first read about dts sound a few years back, I said to myself, "Self . . . I gotta get that." Problem was, the entry cost back then was way too high. So I waited until the technology filtered into a lot of products, then I selected an AV receiver that was introduced about six months ago, and waited for the price to come down (as it almost invariably does with products like this).
I also think (from reading product reviews) that forthcoming models of the HDTV-ready monitors will be better equipped to handle a variety of signals--i.e., they will better autodetect what is coming in and set themselves for the best output. From what I've been reading, a lot of monitors have trouble adjusting at times and need some human intervention.
Or maybe I'll win the lottery and buy me one of them $10,000 plasma displays!
By the way, I read an article projecting that one-third of movie theaters will be converted to digital projection by 2006. Theaters will get their programming from a broadband network and there will be no physical film, meaning the 600th viewing will be indistinguishable in quality from the first.
I also read (non sequitur alert!) that the quality of the dts tracks encoded on DVDs actually exceeds that of the dts tracks optically encoded on film, meaning that home theaters have potential for even better audio playback than the movie theaters. Of course, they have the huge amps and speakers. But also of course, their equipment is overdriven day after day after day.
--Sensitive Stephen