rfg@hound.UUCP (R.GRANTGES) (02/13/85)
[] What wait? Some "digital" features are allready available. Sony has a new set out with greatly improved definition -horizontally by more receiver bandwidth, vertically by interpolated scanning lines - or so I've read somewhere. They also have a new tube with smaller pixcels. Wider bandwidth (but compatible) VCR's are due out in the fall, also from Sony (of course) says Video magazine. Video says that VHS may not be able to match Sony's 20 % increase in definition on tape. I'll believe that when it happens. Back on the subject of waiting, it will be forever if you want to wait for <all> the new digital features. New ones will be continually invented. Pick a time and plunge. A good time is when your old set craps out. -- "It's the thought, if any, that counts!" Dick Grantges hound!rfg
abeles@mhuxm.UUCP (abeles) (02/13/85)
> What wait? Some "digital" features are allready available. Sony has > a new set out with greatly improved definition -horizontally by > more receiver bandwidth, vertically by interpolated scanning lines - > or so I've read somewhere. This TV was also reported in the Sunday New York Times Section 2 (Arts and Leisure) for February 10. The list price will be $1200. I apologize for forgeting the model #. The set is a 25" diagonal one and for an additional $200 you can get a pedestal for it with self contained controls. The alternative method to control it is the standard remote control. This TV is supposed to really be great. It will have improved definition. According to what I've been reading on this net, almost all TV's on the market don't make use of the information contained in the TV signal to the fullest extent. This machine does, according to the reviewer. Evidently improved definition can be achieved without new broadcasting standards for the reason that most TV's don't measure up. This set has more color dots. My question is: does anyone reading this know what the discounted price will be for this new TV? --J. Abeles
lauren@vortex.UUCP (Lauren Weinstein) (02/15/85)
Probably the reason that Sony doesn't want to put the new technology onto the low end machines is because people buying those cheaper machines are often ONLY looking at price -- not at "fanciness" like picture quality (why else would people use VHS SLP or Beta III?) or stereo/hifi audio. As such, keeping the absolute price low, even in terms of numbers like $25/$50, may be quite important for the long term viability of Beta. --Lauren--
pearse@hound.UUCP (S.PEARSE) (02/17/85)
Does anyone have any info on the capabilities of the super-beta technology? Will you have to buy a super-beta TV? If I buy the new 400-line resolution TV Sony just came out with, will it be incompatible (ie, not have enough bandwidth to use the new technology)? And most important, anyone got a clue what the TV and VCR prices will be?? Foaming at the mouth to get it, -- Steve Pearse ihnp4!hound!pearse