[MEncoder-users] Encoding to DVD: to deinterlace or not?

James Hastings-Trew jimht at shaw.ca
Tue Oct 9 06:25:29 CEST 2007


RC wrote:
> On Mon, 08 Oct 2007 17:53:38 -0500
> James Hastings-Trew <jimht at shaw.ca> wrote:
>> You can't buy CRT tvs anymore, at least not around here.
>>
>> I find that extremely hard to believe.  The big expensive LCDs and
>> Plasmas may be most prominently displayed, but CRTs aren't going away
>> for a long time.  Direct-view CRT is the least expensive technology that
>> can do HD, and CRT tubes remain the best (and least expensive)
>> technology for projection TVs.  CRTs are still the most popular tech
>> for new TVs here in the US.
Here in Canada the only CRT TVs for sale are low end small models for 
people who can't afford a $100 15inch LCD. The last time I was in a Best 
Buy was about 3 months ago in Denver, and I didn't see a single TV that 
wasn't a flatscreen. But yeah, you are right about the 1080i.



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