Features of Widescreen TV
The widescreen TV obsession is taking over the Australian market and its customers. According to statistical research more than one and a half million Australian customers this year have bought widescreen flat TVs that generated more than a billion in sales. Not only it is widescreen TVs, but they also take wide share of our pockets and salaries. The TV market is very fancy in general being fuelled by massive marketing campaigns, glossy advertising and promotions. Needless to say, we are all keen to watch our favourite movie on a screen that is wide and shiny. Interestingly, widescreen is not the only main feature that TV developers are very interested in. Recent environmental concerns have stimulated the interest in producing energy-efficient TVs and use it as a main selling point for any large screen TV.
Many customers get confused of with how these TVs differ from HD TVs. You may have noticed that sometimes when you change the aspect ratio, the characters in your movie start looking too wide or too thin or distorted in any other manner. This is because widescreen uses different aspect ratio which generally comes in 16:9, thought it cannot be high definition. At the same time, if TV is qualified as Full HD, this can also be a choice for a widescreen TV. At the moment, it is rather a single standard that has occurred in the market several years ago and has taken over Australia with amazing speed. This is one of the best choices available for this style of TV that does not require thorough thinking and knowledge of special TV jargon when purchasing.
In a snapshot, full HD is just better version of standard large screen TV, but with several times higher standard for the definition. It achieves it due to using higher number of pixels that make image much sharper than standard widescreen TV. Many get confused whether HD TV can also show programmes that are broadcast in widescreen. The additional feature that HD has is that it can display 1080p images which include BluRay. Using ‘p’ is the way to display pictures and means that images are displayed using Progressive Scanning. Some broadcasters prefer 1080p, some 720p, but regardless both are very high quality for large screen TVs and only differ in a way they are displayed.
Nowadays, there are many more versions of widescreen TVs available in the shops, which makes it harder to choose, but also offers customer very good range and better quality.