I’m glad this topic came up. I also find TV / DVD resolution very confusing. Every time I try to muddle through a write up, 8 pages of #10 font single spaced lines later, I’m even more baffled. 480i, 48P, 1080, progressive scan, interlaced???? WTF? HD ready, HD compatible, up converting, blah – blah…… I’m lost….
Four years ago I bought the best “little” big screen TV I could find. – 46” Mitsubishi HD 1080 that was “HDTV ready” for 3500 bucks. Yeah right……HD ready my ass. I just recently thought I’d buy one of these new “up converting” DVD players with digital outputs and hook it up. Good thing I looked at the TV’s back inputs before I bought one, cause there ain’t no digital inputs at all.
Then I screw around with the TV’s advanced selections menu and find it supposedly “up converts”. I can select 480i, 480P and 1080. I try them and nothing happens. Go figure. I give up……..
My 17 year old, 25” Magnavox tube TV is still working like a champ. Dust everywhere, kid’s fingerprints all over it and a dozen different remotes later………still works.
