Comments on: confused with HD televisions help please? http://www.spi3d.com/2010/04/confused-with-hd-televisions-help-please/ Everything about 3D, 3D TV, Movies, models, gadgets and more Thu, 09 Feb 2012 19:46:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: david j http://www.spi3d.com/2010/04/confused-with-hd-televisions-help-please/comment-page-1/#comment-906 david j Wed, 28 Apr 2010 01:08:28 +0000 http://www.spi3d.com/2010/04/confused-with-hd-televisions-help-please/#comment-906 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 1366x768). 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. 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.

]]> By: jf http://www.spi3d.com/2010/04/confused-with-hd-televisions-help-please/comment-page-1/#comment-905 jf Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:25:44 +0000 http://www.spi3d.com/2010/04/confused-with-hd-televisions-help-please/#comment-905 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 1920x1080 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. 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.

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