confused with HD televisions help please?
by 3D G33K
Hi I have the only slightest idea about hd tv’s There is this problem,This hd tv that im buying, its a 1080p one but the thing im confused about is, that its hd ready. I read that all 1080p’s were full hd so im slightly confused :/i thought that you couldnt get a full hd tv without it being 1080pPlease could someone tell me all about this and what are the disadvantages of it being hd ready?This is the description for its features below where it said ’1080 HD Ready. ‘The tv is a Toshiba Regza XV Series 32″ 32XV505 HD 1080p Freeview Widescreen LCD TV# 1080 HD Ready# Freeview Digital Tuner# Display Resolution: 1920x1080p# Dynamic Contrast Ratio: 30,000:1# Brightness (cd/m2): 500# HDMI: 3# Main Specifications:# Picture# Visible Screen Size (cm): 81# Screen Format: 16:9# Active Vision LCD# Standard TV up-scaling# Exact Scan Mode# MPEG Noise Reduction# Selectable Picture Format# 3D Digital Comb Filter# Digital Noise Reduction# Viewing Angle: 178# Luma Sens (Auto Contrast)# 10-Bit Processing# Full Power Down Mode (On/Off)# Game Mode# Interactive Features# Digital Text# Electronic Programme Guide: 8 Day# Now and Next Information# Favourite Channel Memory# Fastext# Text Page Memory# Audio# Sound output (RMS) W: 20# SRS WOW# Stable Sound# Bass boost# Internal Speaker ON/OFF# Tuning# Digital Ready# Freeview Digital Tuner# Analogue Tuner# Auto Set-up# Connections# HDMI: 3# Component video# RGB (via SCART)# SCART: 2# Side AV input# PC Input: WXGA# Analogue Audio Input# Fixed/Variable Audio Output# Optical Digital Audio Output# Headphone# Sub woofer output# DVB Common Interface# REGZA Link (CEC Functionality)# S-Video# Other Features# Off timer# Panel lock# Integrated Signal Amplifier# Wall Mountable (VESA)# Dimensions# Width (mm): 786# Height without ped. Stand (mm): 525# Height with ped. Stand (mm): 570# Depth without ped. Stand (mm): 84. 5# Depth with ped. Stand (mm): 258# Weight (Kg) without stand: 12. 4# Weight (Kg) with stand: 15. 4# Power Consumption(Typical): 173# Power Consumption (Stand-by): 0. 7W# Accessories# Optional floor stand: MV4FXZ# Swivel Pedestal standThanks in advance
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jf
Really all you need to post in the future is the specific model number. We can go and look up the specs easy enough. Less scrolling required on Yahoo! forum then.
You’re getting caught up in marketing lingo crap. There’s no such tech specs as full HD or true HD or anything like that. Its all just marketing language. I would ignore it through and through. Look at the real tech specs. Check out this link, http://www.aria.co.uk/Products/Displays/Televisions/32/Toshiba+32XV505+-+32%22+REGZA+XV+Series+LCD+TV+-+widescreen+-+1080p+(FullHD)+-+HD+ready+1080p+-+FREEVIEW?productId=32716 – it calls it Full HD, HD Ready, and 1080p twice over
You have a native resolution of 1920×1080 and it supports progressive images. So you have a 1080p television. You’re good to go in that regard. You can’t go any higher in any HD related tech spec.
Is there something else you were concerned about technical specifications wise? You mentioned HD ready. To me all that means is that if you feed the TV HD then it will playback HD, voila. A non-HD ready TV can’t process HD. That’s how I interpret that. But again its marketing lingo and can really mean whatever the advertiser wants, there’s no standardization for the term.
david j
That sounds like a good television, but if you don’t know a lot about HD, then it probably is not a good one for you to get. A lot of salesmen will try to sell you a 1080p set using fancy language, but you need to think about what it actually is. 1080p is the resolution of the screen, just like the resolution of your computer monitor. Higher is usually better on your computer, but that is only because you sit right up next to your computer and a higher resolution makes things clearer and easier to see. With your TV though, you will almost never be watching within 2 ft of the screen, so you really don’t need to have that high of a resolution. Especially with a smaller screen, the higher resolution does not really help that much. If you want to buy a 32 inch screen, you should definitely buy one that is 720p (has a resolution of 1366×768). True, the picture will not be as clear, but unless you have superb vision and/or are really picky about your image (which I’m guessing you are not because of lack of knowledge about HDTVs) then you will not be able to tell the difference without putting your face right up to the screen. Until you get to about the 46 inch range, a 720p TV is just as good as a 1080p TV for most consumers. I would recommend buying a larger TV with a lower resolution, you would appreciate it much more than the one you are currently looking at.
Also, DO NOT let the salesman trick you into buying an expensive HDMI cable (which I can almost guarantee you they will try) a cheap one will work just as well.