Wednesday, March 14, 2007

How High Definition Television Works: HD 101

For most of the last 50 years, it was much simpler to purchase a television and enjoy the available programming. In fact, in the early days of television all you had to was plug the set in (and pull up the rabbit ears) and enjoy yourself. Anyone could do it. Today there are so many industry acronyms and abbreviations to wade through: SDTV, EDTV, HDTV, 480i, 480p, 525p, 720p, 1080i, native display, aspect ratio, letterbox, analog, digital, progressive scan, interlaced, non-interlaced, composite video, component video, and DVI. Then there are different display devices like plasma, LCD, DLP, LCOS! And what, you may wonder, is the difference between a television and a monitor? It's enough to make your head spin.
But even if you purchase the right product but don't have the right signal, you may not be getting true high definition.

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