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MrSiD

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« Reply #15 on: February 01, 2001, 05:05:00 PM »
HDTV it may be, but its still 2D..

I hear a good set of 3D VR glasses + quality screen with high refresh rate are a bang..

You can actually SEE the distances on screen, something your normal 2D vision can never offer. HDTV + 3D hmm.. now thats a thought =)

7K$ still is a BIT much for a tv.. the programs aren't all that good lol. But I hear that you americans spend 5 hours in front of the tube averagely.. My limit with tv nowadays is 1 program / day or 3 commercial breaks. If exceeded, I will find something better to do =)

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« Reply #16 on: February 01, 2001, 08:26:00 PM »
best buy sale dudes make like minimum plus 50 cents so they have a bunch of hischool kids living with their parents . you wont get questions answered there often. and the original date for hdtv standard was 1992 i believe it wont happen soon .  

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« Reply #17 on: February 02, 2001, 12:28:00 AM »
What ever happened to hologramic TV?  I have seen pictures using holograms back in the late '60, but never heard anything about holographic technology after that!!

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« Reply #18 on: February 02, 2001, 01:42:00 PM »
Mr Sid, first I'm not american

second: I tried the holographic stuff (I think german ELSA guys have the best solution). I actually bugged hitech into implementing the Z buffer thing a while ago. Outcome: forget it. Multiple problems: drivers are shaky, also screen looses a lot of brigthness when you look through those glasses. Since refresh rates are so high, most applications generate flickering (suspicion: heavy IRQ load, funny DirectX stuff gets the stuff out of sync from time to time). As well, the Z buffer thing on graphic cards seems to cheat, some stuff will appear being 'out-of-plane' and that's VERY disturbing for your 3-D perception. Lastly, you loose about 20% of the side-view (for the holographic overlap) so you get a tad of a 'tunnel'-vision. There were 2-3 games that looked good though (best was Laura's demo ;-)

This stuff has still some way to go.  I'm waiting now for DirectX with multiple cards support and will bug hitech into implementing support for it.  Imagine having 3 paralell displays, one with 6 view, one with forward and one with the pin-up-of-the-day. Oops ;-)

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« Reply #19 on: February 02, 2001, 02:14:00 PM »
Big Screen? I sell and rent LCD projectors and there is nothing like firing up a Barco 9300 <5K Lumens> and sitting infront of a 8x8 screen while flying. I can only do this when the wife's away cause she gets airsick :/


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« Reply #20 on: February 03, 2001, 05:38:00 PM »
All I can say is....

FROSTY MUST DIE!!!!!

 


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« Reply #21 on: February 03, 2001, 05:44:00 PM »
So, MrLars, tell me about projectors.  What's a good one that won't take a second,oops, I mean, third mortgage?

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« Reply #22 on: February 03, 2001, 06:01:00 PM »
Sort of like waling into a Ferrari dealership and asking which one you can have for the price of a Geo Metro.  

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« Reply #23 on: February 03, 2001, 08:45:00 PM »
Currently using flashlite and hands.  Playing shadow AH on 8X8 ft wall heheeee

Lookin to upgrade a bit

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« Reply #24 on: February 06, 2001, 09:58:00 AM »
 
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best buy sale dudes make like minimum plus 50 cents so they have a bunch of hischool kids living with their parents . you wont get questions answered there often. and the original date for hdtv standard was 1992 i believe it wont happen soon .  

Welp...I'm in highschool and I live with my parents...

HDTV _WILL_ be the standard in 2007. If you don't have an HDTV, a digital TV, or a set-top box, then you _WON'T_ watch TV. The government here is requiring it. So...

As for PakRat, go buy your own HDTV.  



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