What's the resolution of a standard TV?

[GoldenBear]

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[tinneric]

They are not like a monitor, they have lines instead of individual dots.

 

[Braxus]

I believe it's 720x480

 

[GoldenBear]

Now on normal TVs would the interlaced or passive be in effect? I know they are on Digital TVs.

 

[IamDavid]

I thought all television where 800X600...

 

[kranky]

WebTV has a good explanation about understanding TV resolution. In a nutshell, 640 x 480 is pretty close.

 

[SexEPid]

Very interesting read!
Monitors are actually clearer than a TV, I guess any idiot could have figured that out 🙂

Pid

 

[Soybomb]

kranky is the closest so far. I think the exact number is like 580x440 or something like that.

 

[Eug]

Depends on the TV, and depends on the video source.

 

[jacobnero6918]

The NTSC is 525 scan lines, which means you'll get about 480 lines of resolution from a DVD. Some of the 525 is for extra data. TV's are interlaced though so only half the scan lines come at once and the one sixth of a second later the second half is drawn.

The new high def TV's have a max resolution of 1080 x 1920 but at this resolution it's interlaced. Thats over two million pixels though! Not sure how many are on a regular TV, probably 250,000 some of the lesser tubes can quite put up the pixels like there suppose to.


BTW, monitors and TV's use the same technology, (CRT) cathode ray tubes. Monitors use progressive frames instead of interlaced and have a higher refresh. Tv's are set at 30 frames a second (actually 29.97). Most people have there monitors set at 85hz refresh which could be said to correspond to 85 frames a second.