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Teddy on 09 March 2015
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sc94597 said:
Teddy said:

We call 720p HD ready, it isn't popular with those that have  educated themselves, wit TV but they tend to be able to sell them to those who don't understand the 1080p standard. I guess it may be different in your country USA but UK the SD format is PAL 576i for UK old TV standard, 480 NTSC was never a good standard and a little bit of a joke here as Never (Twice) the Same Colours. If you or other want to be sold a 720p TV then you are being sold a sub HD standard in many people's eyes over in the UK.

1024 x 768 is XGA as you said not HD.

Back when HDTV's were new, 720p televisions were quite cheap, so I can definitely see why marketing advertised it as "HD Ready." Most people don't buy anything less than 1080p these days, but HD was still applied to televisions which displayed in 720p. As for XGA and WXGA, many "HD" plasma televisions used these resolutions. I honestly don't care if a resolution is called HD or not by people. It affects nothing. Like I said, these screens have 16 times the pixels of the original DS. 

The standards mean different things over in Europe and our HD ready means somthing else, only 1280 x 720p can be called HD ready and 1080p is full HD,  even  1080i is frowned upon here,  I think you cease calling HD ready as a standard back in 2007.  The 1024x768 are basically obsolete as they are not HD there aren't even a 16:9 ratio but a 4:3 standard so that would be stretched over as a 16:9 ratio and you'll lose a lot of quality. It doesn't really matter what it is called I agree but that's what it is called, your attitude is ignorance and that it does make a difference to you, if you were to see them side by side, it don't care if you don't mind but that's what standards are for. Anyway I can see where you are going with this and that's your opinion but you can't dictate your view just because you don't care, that's an argument from ignorance, beause we do over here as I have said even 1080i is not good enough here and that's what the transmission of most TV is on SKY TV which use 1080i but Talktalk use 1080p. Just because something is x16 doesnt make it HD. It makes it higher resolution. Standards are Standards, and your opinion that it doesn't matter what it is called is just ignorance and ignorance shouldn't be the standard. 

We obviously have very different opinion on this so I'll leave if at that but the basic minimum anyone can call 'HD' is 1280x720 which is 921,600 pixels.  1024x768 is 786,432 pixels which is a lot less and not HD.  My old CRT computer monitor in the 90s haha 1024x768 resolution  it was a POS to be honest. XGA display standard introduced in 1990. Later it became the most common 1024x768 pixels display resolution

http://www.hdtvorg.co.uk/focus/resolution.htm