Criticism
The decoding of a 16:9 picture in PALplus is very costly and requires the use of the two fields of the full picture. Because of this, only expensive TVs such as 100 Hz TV sets can decode the 16:9 mode of PALplus.
For all this, the takeup of PALplus has been marginal, and the future of this standard does not look very bright, since broadcasters are switching to digital television broadcasting (DVB).
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Famous quotes containing the word criticism:
“The critic lives at second hand. He writes about. The poem, the novel, or the play must be given to him; criticism exists by the grace of other men’s genius. By virtue of style, criticism can itself become literature. But usually this occurs only when the writer is acting as critic of his own work or as outrider to his own poetics, when the criticism of Coleridge is work in progress or that of T.S. Eliot propaganda.”
—George Steiner (b. 1929)
“... criticism ... makes very little dent upon me, unless I think there is some real justification and something should be done.”
—Eleanor Roosevelt (1884–1962)
“I, with other Americans, have perhaps unduly resented the stream of criticism of American life ... more particularly have I resented the sneers at Main Street. For I have known that in the cottages that lay behind the street rested the strength of our national character.”
—Herbert Hoover (1874–1964)