[OT] HDTV recommendations?

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 11:30:08AM -0400, Dave Germiquet wrote:
> I've got a Samsung 1080i tv, that i bought 3 years ago with 1366x768. It's a
> plasma. I find it working pretty good and works great.

Sure it works, but how would you know what it could have looked like if
it was 1280x720?

On the other hand for many years plasmas were always stretching.  It was
actually common for many to be 1024x768 on '720p' models or 1024x1024 on
'1080p' models.  Since they blur the pixels a lot anyhow, people usually
didn't notice.  Only very large (42"+) plasmas would ever have been true
pixel for pixel HD and usually only 50"+.  Even 1280x1080 has been used
on some plasma screens, although fortunately the larger ones these days
are almost always 1920x1080 natively.

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Len Sorensen
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