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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Tash Kavarish @ Jan 19th 2007 11:28PM
true 1080P is great, shame so much '1080P gear' out there well, isn't 1080P at all...
- 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.