Mattnyc99 writes "Over at Popular Mechanics, Glenn Derene has a great new column investigating the lawless lands of statement television, where the quality of the picture that ends up on your high-priced hi-def set is intent by a bunch of fuzzy math. Quoting: 'In fact, there's no real order over high-definition picture quality at all — "none whatsoever," one crowd expert told me. And that's part of the reason why another HD stations often have wildly varying levels of picture quality that change from one moment to the next. Behind the scenes, content producers, broadcasters and cable and cohort providers are engaged in a constant tug-of-war over bandwidth and video quality, with no hard metrics to even define what looks acceptable. Even third edition by the editors of the american heritage® dictionary. copyright © 2003 body at HBO, where Generation Kill looks pretty phenomenal on my TV, bemoaned the lack of a silver bullet ... for now.'"

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