HD Ready vs Full HD

[Balti]

New to HD. Whats the difference please? Not technically so much but more in terms of viewing quality.

Is there any point considering HD Ready or do I need to go for a full 1080p telly?

Or is it 1080p for PS3 games and Blu-ray and HD Ready for standard TV fare?

Confused!

 

[mancity5]

Front Room....I have HD Ready...Its Good enough

Back Room....I Have Full HD....Its far far superior

I play xbox in the back room !!!

 

[Stirling1978]

HD ready has 720 rows of pixles.

Full HD has 1080 rows.

Would go for Full HD if you can, and if your getting Sky/Virgin HD.

 

[AlexWilliamsGloves]

depends on your source...

i just bought a new TV so ive heard the sales patter lol

If you have a Full HD source, you will benefit from the better picture...but ordinary TV will look the same on both.

In other words if you are not watching everything in HD, getting a HD Ready TV is perfectly fine.

Generally Full HD tvs are more expensive, so if you dont really need it...go for HD Ready

 

[tyqmvko]

Full HD is better than HD Ready in terms of quality etc, but is of course more expensive.

Your choice should probably depend on how much HD you are going to use, because if you don't watch HD often on TV then there wouldn't really be a point in coughing up more money to get Full HD when you could simply have HD Ready.

For a PS3 and blu-ray, then I would recommend getting Full HD to get the maximum quality out of the games/films.

 

[u2fme2]

HD ready has 720 rows of pixles.

Full HD has 1080 rows.

Would go for Full HD if you can, and if your getting Sky/Virgin HD.

always wanted to know the differance

 

[Skashion]

Get 1080p (full HD) if you can afford it.

 

[wez99]

Am I right in thinking, though, that SKY HD is 1080i, and if so HD Ready will be the same as Full HD.

 

[Bluemoon115]

HD Ready = a small penis.

Full HD = a tiny tiny penis.

 

[rickmcfc]

You are all right and all wrong in a wierd way. Here is the difference.

HD Ready - This means that if you plug in a HD source, like any HD Channel, Blueray player, or PS3 and you connect it with a HDMI cable then you will recive a HD picture.

Full HD. So as above then you will have HD TV from whichever channels broadcast in HD. If you buy a HDTV and watch ITV1 then you are not watching High Def TV, the broadcaster has to broadcast in HD and ITV does not broadcast hardly any of its programs in HD. The BBC however have now started to broadcast a lot of programs in it, the difference is amazing.