On the other hand, if you buy a standard screen, you get letterbox when you watch hdtv and you lose the tops and bottoms.
I went for a 43" standard Hitachi. Most shows are not widescreen and I live with the letterbox when they are. In my opinion, Toshiba is now the best picture, followed by Hitachi
Just to show I know nothing, I get great picture when I play a DVD. But I gather from earlier posters that DVD's are not HD quality??
Didn't know this. I do know I had to get a newer version of DVD player than that of our regular living room television. Something about sending the signal twice as fast or something, gives more resolution...(?) I hear that a still newer format is coming.
My widescreen has format options. I can use letterbox, widescreen, zoom, etc.
DVD is 480 lines interlaced (480i) meaning only half of the data is transmitted on each from. Progressive scan DVD players take two frames and combine them and transmit all 480 lines each frame (480p). When people talk about high defintion, they usually mean all 720 lines transmitted each frame (720p) or 1080 lines interlaced (1080i). I think technically 480p is considered high-definition, but since progressive DVD players combine two frames it is still not really a true high-definition signal.