[mythtv-users] Seeking frontend advice

[Mike Carron]

On 06/30/2014 12:30 PM, Raymond Wagner wrote:
> On 6/30/2014 12:33 PM, Mike Carron wrote:
>>
>> On 06/30/2014 07:26 AM, Tyler T wrote:
>>>>>> old SDTV's S-Video input and is "good enough" at 800x600 resolution,
>>>>> Agreed. I have that same setup and the picture looks crystal clear to
>>>>> me (as clear as a CRT is going to get, anyway).
>>>> You probably need to be specific there - as clear as a SDTV CRT is 
>>>> going to
>>>> get.
>>> I didn't know HD CRT TVs existed.
>>>
>> I've seen a few HD CRT sets in the US but they were about as common 
>> as dirt in Akihabara (Tokyo's toys-for-men district) in the early 1990s.
>
> Early 2000s?  The only purpose for a HD display in the early 90s would 
> be a large format computer monitor.
>
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I was there in the early 1990s and there were plenty analog HDTVs on 
display in Akihabara. There were wideband analog HD signals being 
broadcast in Japan in the late 1980s. NHK referred to it as Hi-vision.

mike