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18% of Consumers Can't Tell HD From SD

Posted by timothy on from the paying-the-old-standard-a-compliment dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Thinking about upgrading to an HDTV this holiday season? The prices might be great, but some people won't be appreciating the technology as much as everyone else. A report by Leichtman Research Group is claiming that 18% of consumers who are watching standard definition channels on a HDTV think that the feed is in hi-def." (Here's the original story at PC World.)

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  1. Could be the effects of video pollution? by deviated_prevert · · Score: 0, Troll

    All you have to do is listen to the difference between an extrodinary classical recording of say Stravinsky on Columbia from 1960 Le Sacre De Printemps in a digital remaster to high def audio specs...then listen to the same thing on an mp3 download. It is amazing what passes for good audio these days. I am convinced that the average listener is half deaf! So is it any wonder that our eyes are suffering the same degradation from the video pollution that assaults us daily.

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  2. Re:Are they nuts? by dilvish_the_damned · · Score: 0, Troll

    ...but my brain could still see the hot blonde in the white noise

    Racist much?

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