"FULL HD" Monitors

[Senlis]

jefforange89 said:

Senlis said:
I think Vlad's original point was the ambiguity of the word 'HD'. What does high imply in definition? The name itself doesn't specify anything and is just a marketing term to make products sound good. That, and a lot of consumers don't even know what it means beyond "picture looks better".

This.

I can remember when my friend had just gotten his Blackberry.

"Oh, the screen is so great, it's HD quality!"

When obviously, it was probably barely SD.

lol, I would be surprised if it was 640 x 480, being so small.

The funny thing is that PC has had what many people have considered "HD quality" for a long time, if not the resolutions.  CRT monitors had much higher clarity than SDTVs.