Retailers misleading people about HDTVs!

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Originally Posted by wingnut0021

A freind of mine recently bought a 30'' LCD tv, hes so dead set convinced that it was HD. So i looked at the TV, plugged in hes 360 and set it to 720p over VGA. it accepted the signal of that resolution fine. i then looked closely at the TV and noticed that the 'gap' between each pixel was quite large. I started to doubt that it was infact HD, it actually had it printed on the TV 'HD ready'. It also boughted that it had a HD tuner. I then looked up the TV and found the actual resolution of the TV was like 640 x 480! not only was it not HD it wasnt even 16:9! what crap! The guy is interested in blu ray and how is he gonna even like it when he wont notice the difference over a normal DVD!

I really think alot of retailers are bending the truth with these lower spec TVs, i think alot of people think that just because its and LCD its automatically HD. Come to think of it, my mate said the guy he sold it to was only about 16ish.

A standard definition TV has a resolution of 720 X 480 I/P which is the same quality as a standard 480I DVD. Your friends TV is below the quality of a typical 480I display. In the US in general most of the time 480I displays are labeled SDTV instead of HD ready or HDTV. Also in the US all sets that are labeled 1080P are required to have over 2 million pixels with 1920 X 1080 resolution. Some other countries have different standards for labeling. Did he purchase the display in the USA?