From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Apr 9 01:54:09 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA06672 for chat-outgoing; Wed, 9 Apr 1997 01:54:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hda.hda.com (hda-bicnet.bicnet.net [207.198.1.121]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA06667 for ; Wed, 9 Apr 1997 01:54:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dufault@localhost) by hda.hda.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA15041 for chat@freebsd.org; Wed, 9 Apr 1997 04:51:21 -0400 (EDT) From: Peter Dufault Message-Id: <199704090851.EAA15041@hda.hda.com> Subject: Re: FW: Unix Gurus shift to Microsoft (fwd) In-Reply-To: <199704090512.OAA24420@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from Michael Smith at "Apr 9, 97 02:42:50 pm" To: chat@freebsd.org Date: Wed, 9 Apr 1997 04:51:20 -0400 (EDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL25 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > Amancio Hasty stands accused of saying: > > May I ask what is so stupid about WebTv? > > You ask this of someone with a predisposition towards 19" screens with > .26 or better dot pitch? I've used computers that are designed for TV > output (I love playing Descent on projection TV's 8), and I'm not sure > which of the thought of trying to browse the web as it exists on a TV > screen or considering what it will become in order to be usable on a > TV revolts me more. This year's WebTV isnt that important. We have a battle going on in the US over HDTV standards. Microsoft now has a way of getting an installed base of HDTV systems out using the computer industry's preferred lower resolution non-interlaced HDTV standard ahead of the broadcast industry's preferred interlaced standard. Plus another hardware platform to licence to the consumer electronics companies that will run only MS software, and a hardware technology to licence to the add-in video manufacturers. Peter -- Peter Dufault (dufault@hda.com) Realtime Machine Control and Simulation HD Associates, Inc. Voice: 508 433 6936