How far off is High Definition screens on most things?

richardw

I was thinking mobile phones, mp3/4 players, notebooks, digital cameras?

KeithP

Eh?

Richard, you might like to rephrase that, as I for one haven't a clue what you are talking about.

Marty_J

Unlikely to ever happen for smaller devices. A tiny mobile phone or camera screen won't show any improvement for being in HD. It'll just be more expensive to buy, and use up the battery faster.

But, that doesn't mean some manufacturers won't try it on and charge double for a 2 inch screen that's "HD", and it also doesn't mean some idiots won't be suckered in, but I think they'll be the exception.

richardw

KeithP wrote: »

Eh? Richard, you might like to rephrase that, as I for one haven't a clue what you are talking about.

Do you understand 'High Definition screen'?

Idiophreak

Marty_J wrote: »

Unlikely to ever happen for smaller devices. A tiny mobile phone or camera screen won't show any improvement for being in HD. It'll just be more expensive to buy, and use up the battery faster.

But, that doesn't mean some manufacturers won't try it on and charge double for a 2 inch screen that's "HD", and it also doesn't mean some idiots won't be suckered in, but I think they'll be the exception.

Yeah, what he said...who the heck wants a HD screen on their MP3 player - trying to think how big a screen would need to be before you'd notice the difference at arms length - a good foot, I'd say..

timbim_2

Look here, full post here. Looks like that at 3ft away, you'd need the screen to be approx 25 inches across.

almillar

plenty of notebooks have had HD screens for years. At least 720 vertical lines. Some larger notebooks have a 1920x1200 screens, which is slightly more than 'full HD' 1080 vertical lines. Many 15 widescreen laptops have 800 vertical lines (or should I really be saying pixels?!) which counts as HD.
Some PDAs (remember those?!) started boasting VGA screens (that's 640x480) - in roughly 3" diagonally that's serious pixel density and surely beyond what you eyes could see in terms of detail when watching a video.

KeithP

richardw wrote: »

Do you understand 'High Definition screen'?

Yes, I do.

But I do struggle with "How far off is High Definition screens on most things?".

But never mind. It seems that others are better versed in your terminology than I am.

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