Sony: MS "punched themselves out of the fight"

[rocketpig]

MikeB said:

rocketpig said:

Torillian said:
I did some Bestbuy.com searching for giggles. Only one I found that says 1080p but is not 1920 x 1080 is

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8400624&productCategoryId=pcmcat96200050057&type=product&tab=2&id=1179877503499#productdetail

It's resolution is actually 1920x1200, which is probably why it costs 33,000 dollars.

Doesn't prove Mike right, but I just thought I'd share what I found ^^;;

Heh, nice find. I suspect that they advertise that as 1080p just because it's a well-known marketing term and because technically, the television can do that resolution (and better).

edit: The reason for that resolution is that it is actually 16:10, the format used for computer monitors.

Most 720p (HD Ready) advertised TVs have a slightly higher native resolution. Content is being up- or downscaled by a scalar chip to the TV's native resolution, like 1366×768.

I was waiting for you to use this as reasoning for your argument.

Listen, downscaling is perfectly acceptable. Upscaling is not and does not change the fact that I am right about this. 1080p is 1920x1080. Anything higher than that number can be considered 1080p because it has the required pixels to be advertised as such, just as 720p is technically 1280x720 yet many 720p sets are 1366x720.