HDTV resolutions?

[Jasin2069]

Can someone explain something to me quickly, looking at TVs most have a low resolution, the highest i normally see is 1366x768 that support 1080, its nice that they support that but doesn't it just mean its down scaled to 720? and isn't that kind of false advertising?'

like this for instance?

Resolution: 1366 x 768p
Supported formats
480i, 60Hz
480p, 60Hz
720p, 60Hz
1080i, 60Hz

Thanks

 

[Matt2]

You're right. 1080i is scaled to 720p.

It's not false advertisement because the native resolution is 720p, but it will accept a 1080i signal.

 

[thepd7]

Originally posted by: Jasin2069
Can someone explain something to me quickly, looking at TVs most have a low resolution, the highest i normally see is 1366x768 that support 1080, its nice that they support that but doesn't it just mean its down scaled to 720? and isn't that kind of false advertising?'

like this for instance?

Resolution: 1366 x 768p
Supported formats
480i, 60Hz
480p, 60Hz
720p, 60Hz
1080i, 60Hz

Thanks

Yes it's downscaled, no it isn't false advertising. It doesn't say it shows 1080i, it says it supports 1080i. You can input 1080i all you want and it will show it (at 720p).

 

[Jasin2069]

Thanks for the answers, i still think its false advertising, maybe not that but when you go to most stores they don't say the resolution just that it supports 1080i giving a false sense it displays it at true 1080..

 

[thepd7]

Originally posted by: Jasin2069
Thanks for the answers, i still think its false advertising, maybe not that but when you go to most stores they don't say the resolution just that it supports 1080i giving a false sense it displays it at true 1080..

Eh 720p is better for football anyways.

 

[Viper GTS]

Originally posted by: Jasin2069
Thanks for the answers, i still think its false advertising, maybe not that but when you go to most stores they don't say the resolution just that it supports 1080i giving a false sense it displays it at true 1080..

Since all fixed pixel displays have a native resolution the only acceptable solution is to list the supported inputs alongside the native resolution.

For those of us with 1080P sets NOTHING is actually displayed at its input resolution. It's just the way it works.

Viper GTS

 

[defiantsf]

1080p will come. Cable, Satellite. Not sure if OTA ever will though.

 

[mercanucaribe]

A 1366x768 display will scale EVERYTHING to 1366x768, so no matter what input you have, quality will be decreased. There's a good writeup on scaling, etc, somewhere that shows diagrams of what happens when you scale. It pisses me off that all "720p" screens are 1366x768. It's a waste of high definition digital video.

a 1280x720 screen would display 1920x1080 better because the numbers are "even". 1080 is 1.5x 720.

 

[Eomer of Aldburg]

My old 6800 with some older drivers allowed for a pure 1366x768 resolution on my HDTV. Although once I upgraded to a 8800GTS all that went away and it only displayed out at 720P. perhaps an old PCI card or PCI-e X1 card could display a pure resolution over DVI via HDMI,

 

[YOyoYOhowsDAjello]

Originally posted by: Eomer of Aldburg
My old 6800 with some older drivers allowed for a pure 1366x768 resolution on my HDTV. Although once I upgraded to a 8800GTS all that went away and it only displayed out at 720P. perhaps an old PCI card or PCI-e X1 card could display a pure resolution over DVI via HDMI,

Have you tried powerstrip?

 

[thepd7]

Originally posted by: mercanucaribe
A 1366x768 display will scale EVERYTHING to 1366x768, so no matter what input you have, quality will be decreased. There's a good writeup on scaling, etc, somewhere that shows diagrams of what happens when you scale. It pisses me off that all "720p" screens are 1366x768. It's a waste of high definition digital video.

a 1280x720 screen would display 1920x1080 better because the numbers are "even". 1080 is 1.5x 720.

From what I can remember most displays drop some pixels anyways, right? I could be wrong on this but I remember reading that everything gets scaled no matter what unless you have a display with 1:1 pixel matching and enable it.

 

[Eomer of Aldburg]

Originally posted by: YOyoYOhowsDAjello

Originally posted by: Eomer of Aldburg
My old 6800 with some older drivers allowed for a pure 1366x768 resolution on my HDTV. Although once I upgraded to a 8800GTS all that went away and it only displayed out at 720P. perhaps an old PCI card or PCI-e X1 card could display a pure resolution over DVI via HDMI,

Have you tried powerstrip?

hm interesting, going to try it out.

Well I set the resolution at 1366 by 768 via DVI to HDMI but my tv says the signal is 1080i and its down converting it. Is there any way like before where the input would be a plain 1366 by 768 and not send the signal through 720P or 1080i?