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HappySqurriel said:
kjj4t9rdad said:

Fixed. At least here in the states nearly every show on every major chanel is already in HD. HD is now the standard for any thing over 30". Don't beleave me, go to best buy and see if you can buy a 30" or bigger TV that is not HD. You won't be able to because they don't carry them and havn't for over a year.

The only thing SD will be used for is small screens where resolution doesn't matter( such as hand held and phones)

 

It has been a few years where most TVs over 30 inches are HDTVs, and most TV shows have been broadcast in HD, and yet the Wii continues to dominate in sales in this climate ... As I said before the Wii and PS3 launched, HD is not going to be the selling feature HD-console fans think it will be until the next (or possibly the following) generation. People don't just have to want HD, they have to become so used to HD that they reject all things SD before SD truely dies out ...

 

 

Lets not forget that just because a TV says HD doesn't mean its able to show full HD resolution, it might just do the minimum HD equivalent. The cheapest models still say HD but if their not 1080 having a BR PS3 is somewhat irrelevent.

Video Format Supported Native Resolution (W×H) Pixels (Advertised Megapixels) Aspect Ratio (X:Y) Description
Image Pixel
720p
1280×720
1024×768
XGA
786,432 (0.8) 16:9 4:3 Typically a PC resolution XGA; also exists as a standardized "HD-Ready" TV on the Plasma display with non-square pixels.
1280×720
921,600 (0.9) 16:9 1:1 Typically one of the PC resolutions on WXGA, also used for 750-line video, as defined in SMPTE 296M, ATSC A/53, ITU-R BT.1543, Digital television, DLP and LCOS projection HDTV displays.
1366×768
WXGA
1,049,088 (1.0) 683:384
(Approx 16:9)
1:1
Approx
Typically a TV resolution WXGA; also exists as a standardized HDTV displays as (HD Ready 720p,1080i), TV that used on LCD HDTV displays.
1080i
1920×1080
1280×1080 1,382,400 (1.4) 32:27
(Approx 16:9)
3:2 Non-standardized "HD Ready", TV. Used on HDTVs with non-square pixels.
1080p
1920×1080
1920×1080
2,073,600 (2.1) 16:9 1:1 A standardized HDTV displays as (HD Ready 1080p) TV, that used on LCD HDTV displays. Used for 1125-line video, as defined in SMPTE 274M, ATSC A/53, ITU-R BT.709.
2160p
3840×2160
3840×2160 8,294,400 (8.3) 16:9 1:1 Quad HDTV for DCI Cinema 4k standard format, (Currently, there is no HD Ready 2160p Quad HDTV format until 2015).

 



“When we make some new announcement and if there is no positive initial reaction from the market, I try to think of it as a good sign because that can be interpreted as people reacting to something groundbreaking. ...if the employees were always minding themselves to do whatever the market is requiring at any moment, and if they were always focusing on something we can sell right now for the short term, it would be very limiting. We are trying to think outside the box.” - Satoru Iwata - This is why corporate multinationals will never truly understand, or risk doing, what Nintendo does.