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SD or HD?

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.

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Really?
I stand corrected!

Works for me.

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


Thank you, Sonny. :)
 
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rayw said:
Somewhere along the way I learned "HD" began at 1280x720. Oh well!
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HD does start at 1280x720.... but you mentioned

rayw said:
720p, which is DVD quality.
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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.
 
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