'Don't buy a HD Ready telly thinking it's high-definition – it's not' blog discussion
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I know I get a lot of use out of the full HD and 3D features on my TV yet my parents are fine with there 32" HD ready set as the only thing it gets is occasional usage of the freeview HD channels.
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Aldi had an offer on today (7th June 2012) of a 40 inch LCD TV. Their web site and their weekly leaflet/booklet of forthcoming offers both said it was (quote) a "Full HD 1080" TV. I was up at the crack of dawn and queueing outside the shop at 8am to buy one but then in store the actual box said (quote) 'HD Ready' so I did not buy one based on what I had read earlier. The TV was according to the box made in Slovakia so maybe Full HD and HD Ready mean the same there or maybe Aldi got their brochure and on-line advertising wrong - I just don't know. What I do know is that I am still without a decent TV.
Usually such offers go within minutes at Aldi hence the 8am start but tonight the store still had 5 of the original 6 that were for sale. Still I suppose I can manage with my old black and white, valve driven, 405 line 12 inch Ecko TV in a bakelite shell for now! I said it may be an age thing?!?
the ad just said 1080, so this probably meant 1080i, which is very marginally better than 720p (i think it uses 720 signal and guesses the rest to make up to 1080 rows...)