Over the past couple months I’ve been shopping the Sunday paper and internet ads for a new LCD TV. Currently I have a 25″ Magnavox TV that I bought with paper route money in 1993. It has a single coax input. It’s time to get something new, I don’t watch a lot of TV, I haven’t had cable in 8 years, and I don’t play a lot of games (I have a PS1 and will school any kid at Parappa the Rappa). I’m not planning on getting any major cable package possibly just basic cable so PBS comes in a bit clearer for Rick Steve’s Europe.
Knowing this do I need to spend the extra money to go for the 1080p? Anything is going to be an improvement in picture quality for me. What are the benefits of 1080p over 720p? Is it worth the price difference?
Help me BFFs you’re my only hope.
Yours in Science,
Little Red Ryan Hood
Chairperson of the Matt Hickey fan club.
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what is wrong with the site, i had to check in every 10 min for over an hour to finally load the page. all other sites are good and fast, except for the crunchgear. wut gives?
1080 is bigger than 720 so 1080 is obviously better!
What I’ve found is that TVs that have a native 1080p resolution look like complete ass when displaying a normal SDTV signals (even digital).
According to the article on 1080p on Wikipedia,
“Various television networks in the world broadcast HDTV programming in 1080i and 720p; no 1080p broadcasting exists at this time.”
So you’ll only get to see that resolution if you have a next-gen DVD player and the movie for said player is actually encoded at 1080p.
TVs are only getting cheaper and by the time you find it necessary to have 1080p resolution, it’ll be standard and cheap.
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