Re: Re: Question with regards to componentAlpha

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> From: Allen Akin <[email protected]>

material elided...

> I like the distinctions Keith drew in his reply, but I think the natural
> conclusion is that both display technologies are going to be with us for
> a while.  Until new technologies subsume both, I suspect; not until LCDs
> replace CRTs.
> 

I agree with your conclusion that we'll see both for quite a while yet; 
however, we can do things on LCD's we can't do at all on monitors to improve 
the quality of the display: we can't let fuzzy spots of monitors prevent 
us from making these improvements.  But LCD's are now appearing in many 
places we never thought they'd get to 5 years ago.

I do question your spit: for example, my personal intent is to *never* 
buy another monitor at home, having lived on a flat panel (both laptop 
and desktop) for the last 6 months. The next computer I buy will likely 
go into my kitchen: I'm space constrained, and will not be considering 
monitors for that system; it will either be a laptop, but more probably, 
a flat panel and a small box PC.  And I find I no longer want to work 
on my home system as much due to it having monitors as the fact I can't 
get a reasonable network at home; when I do use that machine, I use it 
from my laptop. Then again, I'm not as cost sensitive as many, nor am 
I a gamer; I don't extrapolate from me to the rest of the world.

Equally likely is to also split to appliances for web surfing, mail, etc,
where I care about text quality well beyond the characteristics of games
and TV entertainment.  Text and 2D graphics and images are more important
to most people than 3D games; anything we can do to up the quality here
is as much of a win, or more, than those markets.

And I also note I now *much* prefer watching my DVD's on my laptop to the 
television set; I'll probably get a big flat panel for my next TV (in another
year or two, as prices keep dropping, and dropping and dropping.), or maybe
I'll just replace the TV with a PC with a big flat panel. We'll see...

					- Jim

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Jim Gettys
Cambridge Research Laboratory
HP Labs, Hewlett-Packard Company
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