What is the different between HD ready and Full HD 1080p?

Question

i dont get it, cause i have a 32" AWA LCD HD ready TV, but when i play on my ps3 i can set the settings on 1080p and still play on 1080p. I dont get it if my TV is HD ready and it still works on 1080p, then wat's the different between full HD 1080p and my one even thought i can still play on 1080p. thx

Answer 1

If your TV is not full HD it is still good, by the way most digital stations

only broadcast in 1080i and not 1080p yet and still 1080p is pricey

while the 1080i are much cheaper , I just got a brand new 42 inch

lcd thats 1080i for 500 bucks , for 1080p that size it would be a grand.

Answer 2

HD Ready - HDTV set capable of accepting HD signals (may not be able to display at full resolution 1920x1080)

Full HD - HDTV set capable of accepting HD signals and able to display full resolution at 1920x1080

720p HDTV - another name for HD Ready HDTV

1080p HDTV - another name for Full HD HDTV

Most of the HDTVs today are able to support 720i/720p/1080i/1080p signals. So the single most important spec that we should be looking for when choosing a HDTV is the screen resolution (pixel resolution).

For HD Ready HDTVs which have screen resolution less than 1920x1080, they are less than ideal. This is because if you feed a 1080i/1080p signal to a HD Ready HDTV, this HDTV will scale down the signal resolution to fit its smaller screen resolution. That is to say, you will lose resolution if you use a HD Ready HDTV to display a 1080i/1080p signal.

For Full HD HDTVs, they have screen resolution of 1920x1080, thus, when a 1080i or 1080p signal is feed to it, it is able to display the picture in its full glory at 1920x1080 with no resolution loss.

So it is not difficult to conclude that if money is not a problem, always go for Full HD 1080p HDTVs with 1920x1080 resolution instead of HD Ready 720p HDTVs which has lesser resolution.

Tom Masters

Answer 3

HD ready has nothing to do with the lines of resolution.  It simply means that the TV can display a HD signal, from a HD source, but doesn't have an HD tuner built in.