| ssj12 said: Actually the whole 720 and 1080 resolutions are a fake resolution standard. The resolutions were created by TV manufacturers because they were to damn lazy and cheap to add the extra horizontal lines that would have brought them to the real HD resolutions of 768p and 1200p. They wanted a wider screen too because people think cinemas have wider screens when in reality they are all full screen resolution movies in theaters but more in the scale of the 4k+ resolutions. |
I'm not sure what you're getting at. There is nothing "fake" about the resolutions. They were picked because they were reasonable to build devices for and the major manufacturers agreed to them. The vast majority of films, even today, are made on real film which has no numerical resolution. 16x9 was picked as a compromise between the existing TV 4x3 format and the wider formats that most movies use (which are not at all consistent so no one TV aspect ratio could display all movies without black bars or cropping - but almost all movies are 16x9 or wider unless they were "made for TV" movies) - to add additional value to this aspect ratio, modern high-end TV production is done at 16x9 exactly so that it will fill what has become the new standard TV aspect ratio (heroes, law and order, battlestar galactica, the office, etc)
Calling TV manufacturers "lazy" and "cheap" is just silly. If they set the standard at something much higher then the price tag of the TVs would be much higher and HDTVs would still be out of the price range of the majority of consumers. Would we all like TVs with double the resolution of 1080p? Sure - but very few could afford them so they would not be a marketable product - never mind that no media or distribution mechanism exists that could provide content - and at your typical TV size of 40" or less no one can tell the difference for video content (a PC monitor you are sitting 2-3 feet from and reading text on is another story, but TV formats were not designed to be viewed from 2-3 feet away).
768p and 1200p mean nothing - they aren't formats or standards anywhere and they never were (1024x768 was a very common 4x3 PC monitor resolition for a long time but it is not a media resolution and it's outdated anyway). No tv or movie content is made in those resolutions. Some "720p" TVs are actually 1366x768, but this is a convenience of what panels were used (notice it's still 16x9, just slightly higher resolution than the 720p spec). They could have cropped the panels and only used the middle 1280x720 - but then your TV would be a bit smaller for the same price tag. 360 can actually output the proper resolution to these TVs if they expose the right EDID information - otherwise you can feed them a 720p signal and they will scale it up.
