Geeks.com was so kind as to send me the Vizio VX32L for review, a 32" widescreen LCD TV capable of doing 1080i. At USD 469.99, this 32" LCD television is quite affordable, so read on to find out if it is worth your money.
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Member since:2006-04-14
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At the big consumer electronics stores in Germany like Media Markt, etc. there are always a large number of LCD TVs on display. Those that support a resolution of 1366x768 are labelled "HD Ready" and are fairly cheap in price. Then, there are those that provide a resolution of 1920x1080 and are labelled "Full HD - i.e. full 1080i support" (and are a lot more expensive). Usually, the stores are running an HD recording through those TVs. The difference between the images on the "HD Ready" and "Full HD" TVs are like day and night.
How does that figure?
Member since:2005-06-28
We are talking about 1080i TVs here, not 1080p. 1080p TVs are 1920x1080 but they are expensive. The BULK of LCD sales today are 1080i. And for these TVs, it IS 1366x768, and they ARE called HDTVs. I don't know how you call them in Germany, but over here they are called HDTVs.
Member since:2006-01-23
At the big consumer electronics stores in Germany like Media Markt, etc. there are always a large number of LCD TVs on display. Those that support a resolution of 1366x768 are labelled "HD Ready" and are fairly cheap in price. Then, there are those that provide a resolution of 1920x1080 and are labelled "Full HD - i.e. full 1080i support" (and are a lot more expensive). Usually, the stores are running an HD recording through those TVs. The difference between the images on the "HD Ready" and "Full HD" TVs are like day and night.
How does that figure?
HD Ready in the U.S.A. was given to televisions that didn't have the HD (ATSC in the U.S.A.) tuner but were capable of accepting 1080i input. Many of those were also noted as HD Monitors.
The nomenclature has changed because those 1366x768 t.v. sets now are required to have the ATSC tuners and are labeled HDTV.
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2005-06-28
ALL LCD 1080i TVs have that 1366x768 resolution. All of them. So if you have a problem with it, go knock the door of the HDTV standard and tell them to not allow manufacturers to call it HDTV 1080i. I have even blogged about it months ago:
http://eugenia.gnomefiles.org/2007/07/27/explain-this-to-me-please/
but there's nothing you can do about it. It's the way it is with LCDs.
Edited 2008-01-09 20:46 UTC