Exactly, the first or second revision of an Apple product is when it becomes decent. If the sales are very slow you can be sure they will quickly change it
Correction: You can already be sure they already know exactly how to change it, and what they will do. They do this with every product. They leave out features that make everyone go huh??? And then slowly add them with each release...each time adding new customers, and getting the blind drones to upgrade.
Correction: You can already be sure they already know exactly how to change it, and what they will do. They do this with every product. They leave out features that make everyone go huh??? And then slowly add them with each release...each time adding new customers, and getting the blind drones to upgrade.
It's not longer 720p that you are displaying. 720p by definition is 1280x720 pixels at ~60fps.
Your LCD could display 720p with zero upsampling (provided it can do 1:1 pixel mapping). Your plasma cannot. It's not a true HD display, more along the lines of an ED display. It was dishonest marketing by early plasma manufacturer's to label their non HD displays as HD.
You do bring up a valid point, resolution isn't everything. Your lower resolution plasma looks better than your LCD, you claim, which I don't doubt that it looks better.
The iPad cannot display HD content, it must downsample HD content to non-HD resolutions.
It won't be the same as the plasma since it has rectangular pixels. The iPad with square pixels and a 4:3 aspect ratio means that with 16:9 material, it'll be downsampled to about 576 lines of resolution.Funny. All these people are claiming it can't do 720p must be smoking something. 720p states the vertical line count ONLY. It exceeds that, so scaling will be used for 720p to scale it UP to 768 lines.
My Panasonic PX70 Plasma TV is a 720p panel, with a resolution of 1024x768 AND it is a 16:9 ratio. How do they do it, must be magic...
Yes it is.It's not longer 720p that you are displaying. 720p by definition is 1280x720 pixels at ~60fps.
Your LCD could display 720p with zero upsampling (provided it can do 1:1 pixel mapping). Your plasma cannot. It's not a true HD display, more along the lines of an ED display. It was dishonest marketing by early plasma manufacturer's to label their non HD displays as HD.
You do bring up a valid point, resolution isn't everything. Your lower resolution plasma looks better than your LCD, you claim, which I don't doubt that it looks better.
The iPad cannot display HD content, it must downsample HD content to non-HD resolutions.
I don't have an argument, I'm stating that 1024x768 is a valid resolution for displaying 720p. Virge's argument is that scaling is bad, both my TV's scale, the plasma down 256 and the LCD up 86, but the image on my 42" Plasma kicks the snot out of my 26" LCD, dispite the latter having 342 more pixels in the horizontal.
To add clarity, I think the iPad sucks satans cock, but the resolution is more than enough for 720p. I'm the last person on here to go for a ride on the Apple sack.
1024x768 may not be a 'true' 720P resolution but your panasonic will display a very good image. Just that you won't be getting the full 1280x720P resolution. It also depends on how close you sit to the screen if you will notice the missing 154pixels. Most people probably couldn't tell in a double blind test anyway not on a movie. Possibly on a static screen capture and if you were close enough.
Resolution is only one point in the overall image quality. Colour, black levels, backlight bleeding, processing are all very important for the overall image.
Also your viewing the image on a 9.7" screen FFS sure it would be nice if it was 1280x720 but I would definitely jack the price up a lot.
Main gripes
-no multi tasking? wtf?!
-no sd to expand memory
-no 1080P or 720P output
They probably ditched that as the 1080P would be too intensive on the hardware coupled with the 16-64GB of memory it would be limited to most people...
Koing
I don't have an argument, I'm stating that 1024x768 is a valid resolution for displaying 720p. Virge's argument is that scaling is bad, both my TV's scale, the plasma down 256 and the LCD up 86, but the image on my 42" Plasma kicks the snot out of my 26" LCD, dispite the latter having 342 more pixels in the horizontal.
To add clarity, I think the iPad sucks satans cock, but the resolution is more than enough for 720p. I'm the last person on here to go for a ride on the Apple sack.
yep. wasn't the first iphone overpriced and crippled? then they came out with a less overpriced and less crippled version, which so enraged the early adopters^w suckers, they demanded and got some money back?
I'm hoping Asus or MSI or Acer will come out with a cheap knockoff that won't look as cool but will be 3x more functional, b/c I really could use something to read e-books and surf the web and mail etc that's more wieldy than a netbook.
So I'm suppose to believe the guy who doesn't even know how many FPS 720p is?
im pretty sick of seeing this argument.
1280X720 = 720p
its a ratio. if you have 720 vertical, you have to have the same ratio in the horizontal. 4:3 is 1024x768. 16:9 is 1280x720 if your wide screen is displaying 1024x768 it is stretching the image across the horizontal, unless it is 4:3 aspect. im wondering if youre looking at the computer connection for that resolution, which wont be the same as the regular operation of the tv. it will be the capabilities of the video card on your computer. when i hook up my laptop with a dvi-->hdmi cable it ran at 1920×1080 or something weird like that. i could also knock it down in the settings to a lower if i wanted, but i was testing HD content on hulu to see if i wanted to use it for viewing on my 65" mitsu diamond series DLP.
and WoW looked great on it too lol.
So I'm suppose to believe the guy who doesn't even know how many FPS 720p is?
25, 29, ~24, and 50 are valid frame rates in addition to 60.
Should look specs up before you post a comment.
This is what you said:
"It's not longer 720p that you are displaying. 720p by definition is 1280x720 pixels at ~60fps."
You specifically said 60fps which is wrong because it can be as little as 24 as you have just posted. Maybe you should look up specs before you post. ;-)
Simple, the earliest so called HD televisions from flat panel manufacturers achieved a widescreen condition by using non-square pixels.The details aren't entirely lacking.
It has a 1024x768 resolution 9.7" LED backlit glossy IPS LCD widescreen screen.
That's what Apple say. Don't ask how it's 1024x768 and widescreen, I don't know, that's just what Apple say.
Most likely they'll leave them in the cars. And like the early days of mass produced consumer GPS units, they'll be stolen in large numbers.i cant wait to see people toting these things around malls with neck tethers. what a silly product "innovation"
You better all call Panasonic and let them know they sold non HD panels as HD in 2007.
What you are doing is jerking off to numbers in the hope of sounding clever, the display is HD and no one has provided credible evidence that the PX70 is not an HD display.
*goes back to watching HD channels on "lousy EDTV"*
1920x1080 is the standard resolution for 1080P. You seem to understand 720p, but call 1080's resolution weird. *shrugs*