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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (41652)	12/6/1997 4:39:00 PM
From: StockMan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Jim, Re -- Don't you need a different type of monitor or TV screen to get true HDTV? No. You could use a regular monitor or TV, with hardware to process each of the broadcasts (both HDTV and DTV) and display them on the respective screen. Its part of the "PC capable of doing multiple things", and similar to the PC2TV adapter cards. Its also part of Intel's strategy of addressing all segments, that includes set top (NC) boxes which oracle is pushing which requires the TV. Stockman

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (41652)	12/7/1997 8:04:00 PM
From: Barry A. Watzman	Respond to of 186894

You do not necessarily need a different monitor to do interlace vs. sequential scan video displays. It is a very simple matter of the relationship between the Horiz and vert scan rates. Take broadcast TV: at 60 Hz vertical and 15,750 horiz, you get interlaced scanning with 262.5 lines per field (even/odd), and a 30Hz frame (complete 525 line picture) rate. If you just shift the horizontal frequency to 15,780 hz, you will get a non-interlaced picture from the same hardware (but with a reduced vertical resolution, because the frame will now have only 263 lines instead of 525). The parameters of the display are vertical scan rate ranges, horizontal scan rate ranges and video channel frequency response (dot clock rate with regard to digital systems). With some range in these parameters, you can do quite a bit of different things with the same hardware.