Difference between revisions of "732: HDTV"
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| title = HDTV | | title = HDTV | ||
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− | One person is pointing to a huge flatscreen HDTV on the wall. The other is holding a cell phone. | + | :One person is pointing to a huge flatscreen HDTV on the wall. The other is holding a cell phone. |
− | + | :HDTV Owner: Check out my new HDTV--a beautiful, high-def 1080p. | |
− | HDTV Owner: Check out my new HDTV--a beautiful, high-def 1080p. | + | :Friend: Wow, that's over TWICE the horizontal resolution of my cell phone. |
− | + | :Friend: In fact, it almost beats the LCD monitor I got in 2004. | |
− | Friend: Wow, that's over TWICE the horizontal resolution of my cell phone. | + | :It baffles me that people find HDTV impressive. |
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− | Friend: In fact, it almost beats the LCD monitor I got in 2004. | ||
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− | It baffles me that people find HDTV impressive. | ||
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Revision as of 00:41, 20 December 2012
Explanation
People find 1080p (that is, a screen 1080 pixels tall with progressive scan) impressive. But, in comparison to other devices, it's actually quite horrible. For example:
60 inch HDTV: 1920x1080
9 inch iPad: 2048x1536
Transcript
- One person is pointing to a huge flatscreen HDTV on the wall. The other is holding a cell phone.
- HDTV Owner: Check out my new HDTV--a beautiful, high-def 1080p.
- Friend: Wow, that's over TWICE the horizontal resolution of my cell phone.
- Friend: In fact, it almost beats the LCD monitor I got in 2004.
- It baffles me that people find HDTV impressive.
Discussion
But it's on a bigger screen. Jokes aside, I believe TVs are more impressive because the refresh rate is higher and the TV needs more circuitry on the back-end to handle the physically larger screen and the multiple possible inputs. I may be wrong. Davidy22[talk] 13:25, 18 February 2013 (UTC)
The commentary about computer screen sizes needs to be dated and/or updated, as it's clearly outdated. 108.162.212.196 17:17, 11 January 2014 (UTC)
- I don't think that's the case. TV's rely on standards, think of blu-ray, dvd, VHS, DVB-C (cable). A change in media format would require users to buy a new hardware, people are likely not willing to buy new equipment every two years.
- For computers it's different. The video output is generated and not played back. Computers are more flexible and if a format is not supported a simple update can fix everything. Necessaryevil (talk) 15:25, 13 December 2018 (UTC)