redspear on 07 April 2008
| jkimball said: This was pretty funny. The wikipedia article on the first page stated that 1080p meant 1080 lines of VERTICAL and p for progressive. A 16:9 display needs 1920 lines of Horizintal to be 1080p A 4:3 display needs 1280 lines of Horizontal to be 1080p A 1:1 display needs 1080 lines of Horizontal to be 1080p. That said, 1920x1080 has become the defacto standard for '1080p' because wide screen TV's are 16:9. If widescreen TV's were 16:10, like computer monitors are then 1080p defacto standard would be 1728x1080 - and still be called '1080p'. personally I have rockin 20" CRT. With an antenna. And six channels. Woot. |
As far as I am aware there is no standard for any 1080 setting within the broadcast systems that supports 4:3. It is possible to be an antiquated or failed spec or perhaps limited to the Japanese market(they have had HD since 1986 if I recall).
The TV set description says it all the proccessing is done by the TV and is an offspec TV. In theory you can make any TV resolution anything you want BUT it has to be able to display standard signals. The TV does all of the work there for little to no gain that I can think of. It is not a standard and since it is 16:9 it does kind of debunk the Wiki page claim of 4:3.
