http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/19/ask-engadgethd-what-is-the-difference-between-a-hdtv-and-a-moni/ Engadget Comments for Ask EngadgetHD: What is the difference between a HDTV and a monitor? http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/19/ask-engadgethd-what-is-the-difference-between-a-hdtv-and-a-moni/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/19/ask-engadgethd-what-is-the-difference-between-a-hdtv-and-a-moni/
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and works quite nicely.]]>Jan 20th 2007 10:43AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/19/ask-engadgethd-what-is-the-difference-between-a-hdtv-and-a-moni/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/19/ask-engadgethd-what-is-the-difference-between-a-hdtv-and-a-moni/Jan 19th 2007 10:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/19/ask-engadgethd-what-is-the-difference-between-a-hdtv-and-a-moni/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/19/ask-engadgethd-what-is-the-difference-between-a-hdtv-and-a-moni/Jan 20th 2007 11:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/19/ask-engadgethd-what-is-the-difference-between-a-hdtv-and-a-moni/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/19/ask-engadgethd-what-is-the-difference-between-a-hdtv-and-a-moni/
- 1024x768, 1024x1024 and 1024x1080 plasmas
- most lcds sport 1366x768 if not 1280x720 yet claim to display 1080i (which given proper content and deinterlacing normally becomes true 1080p)

heck just the other day I saw a 15" LCD TV with an obvious 4:3 ratio claiming to be 'HD Ready'!

I've had a 1080P capable computer monitor (1920x1200 LCD) for years, why can't they bring the same to TV's heck, call em HD Monitors if you want just stop claiming stuff about tvs that simply aint true.

Yeah I know a few 40"+ lcd's have shown up with true 1080p, but only a few, rarely available and often almost twice the price of the not true hd sets they're supposed to replace.

Manufacturing em too expensive? here's a way to cut cost, ditch all sets under 1080p res. stop having a gazillion different models and just have like 2 models per size, with or without tv functionnality (aka tuner+speakers) so people who don't need a tuner (box from cable company replaces it) or speakers (who want's a nice pic with tin-can sound?)

Content wise it's even worse, mostly because of tv providers, low bitrates, compression, crappy user-to-use hardware, few tv channels in HD and even fewer with actual HD content and not upscaled SD stuff etc.

Anywho sorry for the long post and I hope most of it makes enough sense, it's just the tech's been possible for years, and theyve only barely started to market decent parts of it.

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Of course, lazy and ignorant consumers will buy into it even if it means half of the resolution is thrown away. Couple this with a third of the directv resolution thrown away and you are better off plugging in a VCR into that 13" black and white boob tube.]]>Jan 20th 2007 9:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/19/ask-engadgethd-what-is-the-difference-between-a-hdtv-and-a-moni/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/19/ask-engadgethd-what-is-the-difference-between-a-hdtv-and-a-moni/No doubt that they Hitachi you are talking about isn't true 1080p, but it still has more pixels than most 720p TVs and although DirecTV shaves their bits it is true that most people don't even notice. I know everyone is going to hate me for this, but considering their constraints it looks pretty good. (I switched to cable)

We both know this just marketing at work.

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if 720p is 1280x720 and 1080i is 1920x540 then why can't I see 1920x720 progressive?
I know 1920x720 is not 16:9 but more resolution seems to be possible but I can't understand why it would not work.]]>Jan 20th 2007 8:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/19/ask-engadgethd-what-is-the-difference-between-a-hdtv-and-a-moni/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/19/ask-engadgethd-what-is-the-difference-between-a-hdtv-and-a-moni/Jan 20th 2007 8:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/19/ask-engadgethd-what-is-the-difference-between-a-hdtv-and-a-moni/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/19/ask-engadgethd-what-is-the-difference-between-a-hdtv-and-a-moni/
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It's short for "you are"]]>Jan 21st 2007 4:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/19/ask-engadgethd-what-is-the-difference-between-a-hdtv-and-a-moni/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/19/ask-engadgethd-what-is-the-difference-between-a-hdtv-and-a-moni/Feb 28th 2007 8:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/19/ask-engadgethd-what-is-the-difference-between-a-hdtv-and-a-moni/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/19/ask-engadgethd-what-is-the-difference-between-a-hdtv-and-a-moni/Jan 22nd 2007 4:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/19/ask-engadgethd-what-is-the-difference-between-a-hdtv-and-a-moni/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/19/ask-engadgethd-what-is-the-difference-between-a-hdtv-and-a-moni/
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