Originally Posted by pocatello:
“Ah yea that was before I got into plasma, so I'm guessing 2006~ model. Interesting bit of technological oddity guess, something they did because of the limitations of the technology of the day. 1024x1080 is a weird resolution, it doesn't meet 720p resolution in one direction,and it doesn't meet 1080p's resolution in the other, and the native interlacing means it gets worse from there. Before interlacing it has to do some scaling even, gaining even more fun artifacts. I guess the reason he doesn't see much difference is just that, it was a display from when the tv's were just not quite fully baked technology yet...atleast at a reasonable price. For what those things cost you could get a top of the line display today.
Plus they were selling those to people without HD sources in the uk for the most part. So yea not a good screen to compare HD for today. In the last few years plasma has jumped way ahead with resolution/power consumption and price.”
thanks for the thoughts - yes i think it is about that time. One HDMI, and no digital tuner. I thought it was a good deal at the time, but obviously pricves have continued to fall
Subjectively we like the picture - but maybe you are right - perhaps the HD we are seeing is not as good as some HD's!