what's with Plasma TV resolutions like 1024x768???

[Solodays]

what's with these plasma tv's with res 1024x768? isn't that full screen? and yet the tv still look widescreen????????

 

[Accord99]

Non-square pixels.

 

[VIAN]

retarded pixels.

Widescreen res is still prefered, cheap bastards.

 

[klah]

From the avsforum plasma faq

What is the difference between square and non-square pixels? Should this be a decision factor in my purchase?

Pixels are the basic picture elements of digital display devices such as plasmas. Pixels are further divided into three different ?sub-pixels? regions for each Red, Green and Blue fundamental color spaces.

The pixel structure itself can take various shapes. There are different manufacturing techniques to produce plasma panels of large group of pixels. The majority of manufacturers OEM their panel glass to Panasonic who uses ?square? pixel structure. This type of panel has the correct physical and image ratio. For example, a 16:9 physical ratio will also have 16:9 pixel ratio (a typical 50? unit will have 1365:768 pixels +/- 2-3 pixels).

On the other hand, all Pioneer 50? panels (1280:768) and the new generation of HD 42? panels (1024:768) have a ?rectangular? pixel structure. While keeping the same 16:9 physical ratio, the rectangular pixel structure mismatches the physical ratio by 15:9 for the 50? plasmas and 12:9 for the HD 42? units. This translates into a ?stretched? image to fill the correct 16:9 physical ratio (circles look like ovals). However, the internal scaling processing of the plasma units compensate for this and the end result is a perfect image (circles look circles).

 

[ScrewFace]

Dagnabbit! Another question I can't help with! When will you people start asking questions that I can answer?!?

 

[Sonikku]

Circles look circles.

Awesome.

 

[Solodays]

why would anyone want to buy an plasma with pixels like that and not to mention burn in issue.

 

[jevans64]

Originally posted by: Solodays
why would anyone want to buy an plasma with pixels like that and not to mention burn in issue.

Because these people are stupid and only want something to hang on the wall. I normally tell these nuts to get a PAINTING if they want to hang something on the wall. :laugh:

Just last week I stopped " a friend of a friend " from getting a plasma TV. I noticed that he was shopping for TVs on the internet. He was looking at a 60" plasma that cost $8000. I just had to say it ... " You're not gonna get THAT. Are you? " I said, " You can get a damn good LCD projector for less than 4 grand plus another grand for a 120" screen." Instead of buying a new TV when it starts to dim, all you have to replace is a $300 lamp.

 

[Solodays]

and plus some plasma tv have 840x480 resolution, something like that. when the time comes, how could you play PS3 on that and HD movies with that low res?