What exactly is a 1080p, HD, and widescreen TV?!?

Question

Please help, currently have a ps3 and want to play MGO beta but the stupid screen size has the black bars on the top and bottom so i want to get a new TV, but i dont know which will get rid of the black bars and HD!!!!

Answer 1

Widescreen is what you want, plus you'll need an HDMI cable to get 1080i or 1080p. But widescreen will take care of your letter box trouble with the bars on top.

Some web sites say that component video goes to 1080i and 1080p but it ain't so. Reason is component video can't be copyright protected where HDMI falls under HDCP encryption protocol. So no copying from an HDMI source, with HDCP.

Answer 2

the best quality tv, picture, and tv u could get!

Answer 3

1080p is the best picture you can get right now. 1080i is very good as well because i have that for my ps3 and it looks almost identical as my friends 1080p. of course i would go with the 1080p if you plan on having it for a while. oh and to answer your question all of these are considered HD.

Answer 4

What exactly is a 1080p, HD, and widescreen TV?!?

Hmm, thats hard, a TV!

Answer 5

dude hd is the best u can get, the black bars r called wide screen, everything looks better in hd

Answer 6

Not exactly sure, but my husband just HAD to have 'em.  Lol  We just upgraded from our HD 1080i sets, to the HD 1080p sets...something about the picture.  I guess it's the latest and greatest, but will be sh*t in 2 years from now.

Answer 7

1080p: This means that the image output has 1080 horizontal lines, and that the image has twice the frame rate of a 1080i picture.

HD: Any resolution above 480 horizontal lines is considered to be High Definition.

Widescreen: A television with a width:height ratio of 16:9 instead of the standard 4:3.

Answer 8

It's an HD with a plasma screen, and it's a big screen too.

Answer 9

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fmm3xMKVA...

Answer 10

1080p and HDTV Resolution Explained

http://forum.ecoustics.com/bbs/messages/...

http://www.cnet.com/4520-7874_1-5137915-...

Resolution is the main reason why HDTV looks so much better than standard television. On a high-def TV displaying a high-def source, a million or more pixels combine to create images that appear sharper and more realistic than TV ever has before. Resolution isn't the be-all and end-all of picture quality, however, and its numerous, well, numbers, can be incredibly intimidating at first. In this article we'll try to demystify HDTV resolution and help you cut through the hype that surrounds all of those numbers.

How important is resolution?

Not as important as you might think. According to the Imaging Science Foundation, a group that consults for home-theater maufacturers and trains professional video calibrators, the most important aspect of picture quality is contrast ratio, the second most important is color saturation, and the third is color accuracy. Resolution comes in a distant fourth, despite being easily the most-talked-about HDTV spec today.

In other words, once you get to high-definition, most people are perfectly satisfied with the sharpness of the picture. All other things being equal--namely contrast and color--HDTV looks more or less spectacular on just about any high-def television regardless of its size or the HDTV signal's resolution itself. The leap from normal TV to HDTV is so big that additional leaps in resolution--from high-def to higher-def, let's say--are tiny by comparison.

Nonetheless the HDTV landscape is littered with resolution discussions, in regard to both sources and displays, so a little knowledge of how they interact is a good thing.