Re: LCD TV Resolution Question(s)

Simon Chambers wrote:
I have an LCD monitor for my computer, and if I use it at a lower resolution
than it is capable of the display is fuzzy as it "expands" the picture to
fill the screen.

Why then, given that UK TV broadcasts in 625 lines, is the typical
resolution for an LCD TV 1024 * 768 for 4:3 or 1368 * 768 for 16:9?

Surely this will result in a picture that is not as sharp as it could be?

LCD monitors are only designed to work at one resolution, feed them anything else and they don't work properly. A better analogy is when you resize a window on your PC, for example when wiewing a photo or playing a DVD. You can make the window as big or as small as you want, or expand it to full screen, and there's no way you will be able to tell by looking whether the image happens to be at its native resolution rather than slightly larger or slightly smaller, because it looks exactly the same.

Whats more, I understand that HDTV will be 1020 lines(?), so surely even the
so called HD ready LCD TVs will not be capable of fully displaying and HD
picture and will be fuzzy as the "shrink" the picture? Or have I missed
something here as well?

Its 1080, not 1020. The actual vertical resolution of 1080i is about the same as 720p anyway, so you won't be missing much
.

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