MY PARENTS:: HD TV USABILITY

My parents love new gadgets – anything “hi-tech”, shiny and expensive.  When they brought home their first  SONY BRAVIA HD TV, they were so excited to see those 4:3 channels stretched out to 16:9 – they actually like to see the image stretched out because it is bigger and as we all know, bigger is better!!

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PART 1:: WHAT IS HD ON THE WEB, ANYWAYS? :: EVEN WIKIPEDIA IS CONFUSED

FIRST INSTALLMENT :

High Definition usually refers to 720 horizontal lines of video format resolution or more, but there are a lot of subtle nuances to master before evangelizing the world of “streaming HD Quality” video to the desktop.

I thought I understood the standards and had the answers, so I turned to my good friend WIKIPEDIA for confirmation and all I found was more confusion – click screenshot thumbnail to enlarge, and see how confused the wiki of the world is when it comes to HD!!

HD CONFUSION
HD CONFUSION

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