What’s
The Real Difference
Between
HDTV and EDTV?
• Your local TV
salesman may be trying to push an EDTV Plasma TV on you; he assures
that you can’t tell the difference . . . he can save you lots
of money . . . HD isn’t all it’s cracked up to be . .
.
•
You know
who can tell the difference? The store manager who ordered him to
push the obsolete TV so they can restock with new HDTV Plasmas!
Don’t fall for the hype!
•
Almost
all Plasma TVs are now manufactured in HD (High Definition) and
almost none in ED (Enhanced Definition). EDTV is going the way of
the Dodo Bird . . . don’t buy one!
•
In
February 2009 ALL
TV
broadcasts go digital . . . you want to be ready for the Digital
Revolution with a TV that can handle High Def broadcasts, Blu-Ray
and HD DVD with the highest image quality!
Which
Plasma TV is
Better
. . . HDTV Or EDTV?
• Screen Resolution is a
way of determining how sharp a television display’s image is.
Imagine drawing a picture of a house using 100 colored blocks; the
picture would be crude, but recognizable. Now draw the same picture
using 1000 smaller colored blocks; your picture would be sharper
and have much more detail.
•
• Standard TV is the
tube television you grew up watching; it’s now obsolete. This
signal will no longer be broadcast after February 2009. Compared to
modern television technology, the NTSC signal it displayed was
fuzzy: using 129,600
tiny
dots (pixels)
to make up it’s image. NTSC has 270 x 486 lines of
resolution.
•
A Standard DVD player
provides an image that is only slightly better. You can see a
distinct improvement in the image quality of DVDS over standard TV,
but a DVD image contains 345,600
pixels.
A
DVD has
720 x 480
lines of resolution.
•
EDTV (Enhanced
Definition) is obsolete even though it’s image is more than
twice as sharp as the old tube televisions; 409,920
pixels.
EDTV
has
852 x 480
lines of resolution.
•
HDTV (High
Definition Television) offers four levels of resolution. The lowest
resolution is EDTV, which is not acceptable. The lowest acceptable
level of HDTV is called XGA; it gives 786,432
pixels, a 92%
increase over
EDTV resolution! HDTV
has
1024 x
768 lines of resolution.
•
SXGA (Super
eXtended Graphics Array) is the second highest level of HDTV
resolution, resulting in a fantastic image. A Plasma, LCD or DLP TV
with SXGA resolution creates 1,310,720
pixels on the
screen. SXGA has 1280 x 1024 lines of
resolution.
• UXGA (Ultra-eXtended
Graphics Array) is the highest resolution available in Plasma, LCD
or DLP TVs. It creates 1,920,000
pixels.
UXGA has 1600 x 1200 lines of
resolution.
•
HD DVD and Blu-Ray are
competing DVD formats that give the best image available today,
they both display 2,073,600
pixels! HD
DVD and Blu-Ray have 1920 x 1080 lines of
resolution.
Samsung 42 Plasma TV - 42 - ATSC, NTSC - 4:3 , 16:9
- Stereo Sound - HDTV 
Polaroid 42 Plasma TV - 42 - NTSC, ATSC - 181
Channels - 16:9 - Stereo Sound - HDTV 
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Guide
To Plasma TV
• There are still old
EDTV Plasma models floating around some TV showrooms; avoid them
like the plague and hold out for a HDTV
Plasma. EDTV is now obsolete, even though it’s the same
resolution as the digital broadcasts that are mandatory starting
2009.
•
A HDTV
Plasma has almost twice the resolution of a EDTV display.
With all broadcasts going digital soon, you’ll need a TV
capable of taking your family into the future with High Def
capability.
It’s as easy as
123!
