HD compatible

HD compatible

The term HD compatible has been used in Europe along with the term HD ready to market display devices. However unlike with the term HD ready, which has official requirements set by EICTA (European Information, Communications and Consumer Electronics Technology Industry Associations), the term "HD compatible" can basically mean a lot of different things. Typically, the term "HD compatible" indicates that a display device is capable of taking an HDTV-signal as an input (via analog YPbPr or digital DVI or HDMI) but the actual HDTV-signal is downscaled to a lower resolution. This downscaled resolution can be even worse than the SDTV-resolution (e.g. VGA-resolution, 640 x 480 pixels). Therefore consumers should always look for the HD ready logo in the display device to be purchased

See also

  • HD ready

External links

  • [http://www.hdready.org.uk/ HD ready official UK website]
  • [http://eicta.ntc.be/index.php?id=175 EICTA: Broadcast]
  • [http://www.pioneerelectronics.com/pna/learn/about/chapters/0,,2076_3105627_3105653,00.html Pioneer Electronics - Learn About High Definition TV]
  • [http://www.hdtvtotal.com/module-pagesetter-viewpub-tid-1-pid-968.html "Full-HD-ready, really?! Not definitive!"] Report about HD-ready's requirements and their meaning, usage of the label and other similar marketing-slogans


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