{"id":1354,"date":"2003-10-12T13:11:03","date_gmt":"2003-10-12T02:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=1354"},"modified":"2010-03-15T09:17:17","modified_gmt":"2010-03-14T22:17:17","slug":"what-is-high-definition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=1354","title":{"rendered":"What is High Definition?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A web page for a major Australian electronics retailer says that the Fujitsu 106cm plasma display, P42VHA20 has the following features:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>High Definition 42-inch (16:9)<\/li>\n<li>852 x 480 pixel panel<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Wrong! No doubt they&#8217;ve been confused by the fact that this display will accept high definition input signals. But what it actually shows is a low definition picture. Like many of the less expensive panels, it was designed for the US and Japanese markets which use NTSC. This has a vertical resolution of 480 lines. But here in Australia (and in Europe and India) we use PAL which uses 576 lines. So a panel like this actually <em>reduces<\/em> broadcast TV resolution. Panels with a vertical resolution of 720 or 768 pixels can probably get away with the hi-def tag, but not one with just 480 pixels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A web page for a major Australian electronics retailer says that the Fujitsu 106cm plasma display, P42VHA20 has the following features: High Definition 42-inch (16:9) 852 x 480 pixel panel Wrong! No doubt they&#8217;ve been confused by the fact that &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/?p=1354\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1354"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1355,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions\/1355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/hifi-writer.com\/wpblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}