24 Oct, 2007
In the modern day we have all our HD TV’s, but do we really understand what the i’s and p’s mean? after 1080 and 720 you will find either a p or an i. The i means interlace, this is because old TV’s did not have enough bandwidth to fit the whole image on the TV at once, so it would carry every other lines worth of information and then the remaining lines. Technically this is an older technology and less advanced. The p stands for progressive and this is when the whole data is sent over at once and displayed at once. Progressive TV’s can display interlace signals as well. I hope this cleared things up it helped me.
I did something similar on my blog (in fact the very same article) and I didn’t find that it really got traction so I let it go – but I might start doing it again if I feel that it could be nessercary.
I find this sort of thing very “nessercary” for me, so interesting. And also I need it all repeating frequently ‘cos I forget. It’s interesting that 760 does not seem to be all that much more than regular tv despite the high cost of sets – and also the large difference that 1080 is. My only question is – why is the computer resolution 1920×1200 rather than 1920×1080?
I have no idea why here is a diffrence in laptops and TV’s. If you compare 720 with 480 you can see it.