| Galaki said: Think about it. You have 50'' TV at 1080P and that's awesome. Now, you have a 10'' screen with twice the resolution. You're going to be able to tell the massive difference? |
The two big differences are distance and usage.
A TV screen is typically viewed around 3 meters away, while a tablet is typically viewed from 30-100cm away. In fact, if I've calculated things correctly, an iPad 3 pixel viewed at 30cm will appear bigger than the HDTV pixel at 3m.
Usage is the second big difference. A TV screen is used almost exclusively to view videos. Tablet screens are often used for that, too, but they're even more frequently used to display text. Not big flashy "Crit 999" text, but dense text in books, web pages, email, and such. A TV wants to replace a film projector, while a tablet wants to replace a printed page (among other things). And the benchmark for smooth, crisp text on a printed page is 300 DPI, so even the iPad 3 is only 90% of the way there.
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