732: HDTV

Explain xkcd: It's 'cause you're dumb.
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HDTV
We're also stuck with blurry, juddery, slow-panning 24fps movies forever because (thanks to 60fps home video) people associate high framerates with camcorders and cheap sitcoms, and thus think good framerates look fake.
Title text: We're also stuck with blurry, juddery, slow-panning 24fps movies forever because (thanks to 60fps home video) people associate high framerates with camcorders and cheap sitcoms, and thus think good framerates look fake.

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.


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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The commentary about computer screen sizes needs to be dated and/or updated, as it's clearly outdated. 108.162.212.196 17:17, 11 January 2014 (UTC)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)