of kids want an iPad
The Nielsen Company presented a cadre of individuals with a list of nice, shiny gadgets and let them cross off anything and everything they'd like to buy in the next six months, and 31 percent of kids 6-12 picked the iPad as one of them.
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The problem is that pixel count is only part of what makes a good picture. It is a technical standard that is almost completely independent of actual picture quality.
I mean you can take a crappy 100x100 pixel photo and resample it and compress the hell out of it with Jpeg compression. You'll have a blurry, macro-blocked mess but technically it will be an "HD" picture at that point. HD is only about pixel count. It has nothing to say about were those pixels came from or how they are treated.
And since the general public isn't interested in investing a lot of effort into understanding all the factors that go into a quality picture, they rely on buzzwords and the little badges that get lined up across the bottom of CE electronics packaging to make their purchasing decisions. More badges must mean more quality, right? This is why manufacturers waste so much time inventing pseudo-technical sounding "features" that supposedly differentiate their TV. And so much of it is snake oil. (xvYCC anyone?)