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Originally Posted by Ward Cleaver
I've repeated myself because there were a few unknowledgeable people out here who were incorrectly arguing that a 1024 x 768 plasma was an HDTV, such as yourself...
Comments like these displays ignorance on the subject and a lack of understanding, so I am forced to repeat myself.
Listen closely...there is no such thing as a 42" plasma HDTV.
No plasma panel under 50" is capable of displaying true HDTV.
That is a fact. You can complain about it, whine about it or argue about it...but, that does not alter the fact that 1024 x 768 is not HDTV, while 1280 x 720 is HDTV.
Stop trying to beat a dead horse. Accept my correction, learn from it and move on.
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Unlike you I am not an expert on all of this but it was my understanding that the United States had legislatively adopted the ATSC Digital Television Standard (a/53), which is currently in Revision D with 1 Amendment. (
http://www.atsc.org/standards/a_53c_amend-1_corr-1.pdf). That standard specifically recognizes ITU-R Recommendation 1125, as published by the International Telecommunication Union, as the distinction of what constitutes HDTV versus SDTV within the DTV standard. That recommendation in turn does not even formally recognize 720P as a high def signal but it establishes the definition of "HDTV Quality" as "the delivery of a television picture, which is subjectively identical with the interlaced HDTV studio standard" which I understand has been interpreted to mean that 720P is, in fact, HDTV. But the 1280 vertical resolution, while included within the ATSC broadcast DTV standard, has never been a requirement for meeting the HDTV definition to the best of my knowledge.
Since you seem to be quite adamant on this subject and on your superior expertise on the matter, I was wondering if you could please provide a reference to whatever clarification was made to Recommendation 1125 or to where the ATSC has taken it upon themselves to abandon the international definition and declare their own standards as the sole governing policy in defining HD? Thanks.