SD or HD?

[joshythehipster]

What's your preference?

 

[rayw]

HDs minimum requirement is 720p, which is DVD quality.
1080 if you want to show well on contemporary 16:9 HD flatscreen TVs.

Only if your computer's processor can only reasonably handle sub-720p or all you're doing are youtube diary blogs should someone need to fool with SD.

 

[GhostReporting]

HD>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>SD
SD sucks!

 

[sonnyboo]

WRONG INFO

HDs minimum requirement is 720p, which is DVD quality.

Standard Definition DVD's are only 720x480 NTSC and 720x576 PAL

720P = 1280x720 and there is no SD-DVD that contains that format.

 

[rayw]

Really?
I stand corrected!

Works for me.

Somewhere along the way I learned "HD" began at 1280x720. Oh well!


Thank you, Sonny.

 

[sonnyboo]

Somewhere along the way I learned "HD" began at 1280x720. Oh well!

HD does start at 1280x720.... but you mentioned

720p, which is DVD quality.

DVD's are SD and limited to 480 (NTSC) and 576 (PAL) - HDMI "upres" players convert the 480/576 signals up to 1080, but they are still playing MPEG2 files on a disc that are 720x480 or 720x576

HD is anything over 720P, but tends to be descriptive of 1280x720, 1440x1080, and 1920x1080 - the official standards of "HDTV", but 2K and 4K are high resolution and even "high definition" but there are no TV's on the market that can play those formats..... yet.