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Thread ID: 112035	2010-08-21 05:25:00	TV - Full HD cf HD ready?	John H (8)	PC World Chat

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1130141	2010-08-21 05:25:00	Can someone enlighten me please? I notice some LCD TVs are advertised Full HD and others are HD ready. What the hell does 'HD ready' mean? Will the TV grow up somehow and become Full HD? Is this some kind of con job? What else needs to happen to make it Full HD? BTW, I am just looking for a second TV for the house - about 26", mainly for the grandkids to use if we want to shift them out of the living room when we get sick of Disney TV or their usual DVDs blaring away... They will be using it for DVDs and Freeview channels. Thanks for any help...	John H (8)
1130142	2010-08-21 05:33:00	Both should accept a Full HD (1080p) input signal but the difference is in the screen resolution, not what input it can handle. Full HD means 1080p while HD Ready means only 720p So if you input 1080p from say a Blu-Ray player into a 720p TV, you will lose some information, and the picture won't look as good as it could. If the TV is small, 720p may not matter. If you care about quality or it's a bigger set, make sure it is capable of Full HD (1080p) If you can get a demo with both running side by side with the same input, that should help you decide...	Agent_24 (57)
1130143	2010-08-21 05:47:00	Thanks for that; I think I understand, a bit - well, I guess I understand the end result. Shove a 1080p signal into Full HD and you get 1080p screen resolution. However, if you do the same thing with an HD ready set, it will accept the signal but you only get 720p screen resolution. In what way then is it HD ready? To my dumb brain it sounds as though it should be called HD Unready (or nothing at all) - if it cannot provide the 1080p resolution potentially fed in through a HD signal it can accept, then what is it ready for? :illogical How can you make it ready? This set will be using a Freeview tuner (I will only buy one with a tuner inbuilt, and I understand that will be terrestrial usually), and a Pioneer DV355 DVD player which is probably 4 years old. So there won't be a 1080p signal (I guess), but I should 'future proof' as much as poss I suppose, in case I upgrade the DVD player?	John H (8)
1130144	2010-08-21 06:08:00	In what way then is it HD ready? To my dumb brain it sounds as though it should be called HD Unready (or nothing at all) - if it cannot provide the 1080p resolution potentially fed in through a HD signal it can accept, then what is it ready for? :illogical How can you make it ready? A HD ready TV can still handle an HD signal and will produce a picture of higher resolution than a standard TV. Standard TV: 720576 (Thats the resolution of the display) 720p: 1280720 Progressive scan 1080i: 19201080 Interlaced scan 1080p: 19201080 Progressive scan Higher resolution source = better picture This set will be using a Freeview tuner (I will only buy one with a tuner inbuilt, and I understand that will be terrestrial usually), and a Pioneer DV355 DVD player which is probably 4 years old. So there won't be a 1080p signal (I guess), but I should 'future proof' as much as poss I suppose, in case I upgrade the DVD player? Currently Freeview and Sky aren't 1080p - Sky & TV3 are 1080i and TV1 & 2 are 720p, but there is benefit in buying a Full HD tv as it can handle the extra million pixels. AFAIK the main reason broadcasts aren't 1080p is because of the large bandwidth required for a 1080p broadcast - 50Mbps for 1080p compared to 14Mbps for 1080i (the rate which Sky broadcast at).	davidmmac (4619)
1130145	2010-08-21 06:10:00	What is better? 1080i or 1080p? interlaced normally makes the words american and NTSC pop into my head, Progressive normally means PAL and Aussie/New Zealand/UK. So, What is better?	goodiesguy (15316)
1130146	2010-08-21 06:13:00	What is better? 1080i or 1080p? interlaced normally makes the words american and NTSC pop into my head, Progressive normally means PAL and Aussie/New Zealand/UK. So, What is better? From best to worst, 1080p, 720p, 1080i. 1080i means interlaced, which means only half of the lines are drawn at any one time. Progressive draws all 1080 lines at the same time. :)	pcuser42 (130)
1130147	2010-08-21 06:15:00	I know what interlaced is, i have to set the de interlacing to "bob" on VLC for my dvds to play all the lines and fields properly	goodiesguy (15316)
1130148	2010-08-21 06:29:00	Thanks everyone. I still don't feel the name 'HD ready' makes sense, but I do understand what you are saying! I think I have only seen one Full HD set available around the size I want for that room (26") - it is actually 27" - a Samsung SyncMaster P2770HD. Is Samsung a reasonable brand to go for?	John H (8)
1130149	2010-08-21 06:35:00	Thanks everyone. I still don't feel the name 'HD ready' makes sense, but I do understand what you are saying! I find the marketing to be shithouse, Each set should just be listed with its maximum display capabilities,instead they cloud the waters as much as possible. Then they plaster there marketing crap all around outside of the screen.Its all bullshit, its a damn display screen,display something, don't give us 65 instances of crap. I just bought a 32" LCD on Thursday night, The sticker along the bottom proclaiming all its brilliant features didn't even enter into the equation. And it went in the rubbish as soon as the set was out of the box.	Metla (12)
1130150	2010-08-21 07:53:00	Samsung are the largest producer of Plasma & LCD panels ... got a very good name and used by other "manufacturers" in their products, solely because their production volumes make them very economical. They're also at the cutting edge of technology as well, wish I could get .0005% of their R&D budget.	SP8's (9836)
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