[mythtv-users] OT: HDTV TV's

[James C. Dastrup]

> You may be looking at the wrong store or wrong brands.
>
>Sony, Toshiba, Hitachi, Panasonic, etc. are "wrong brands"?

>I have looked for brands like: Sony, Philips, LG and Dell. All of them announce 
>they have HDTV-ready TV's and that support 720p and 1080i but they only 
>have 1024x768 resolutions.
>
>I continue looking today and found only 2 or 3 (including the Sceptre one) 
>models with 1920x1080 resolutions and several (more than 20) with 1024x768. 
>Even almost all Sony HDTV-ready TV's only have 1024x768 resolutions.... 
>are brands lying to costumers??

I just looked on Sony's website and most of their flat-panel HDTV's have a 
resolution of 1366x768.  I don't understand why they aren't using 1280x720, 
(maybe for overscan compensation?) but my guess is these will display a 
1280x720 signal without conversion.
 

 

 
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