If it had a HD tuner, it should have either true 720p or 1080p resolution (meaning 1280 or 1920 pixels wide, respectively, with greater than or equal to 720 or 1080 pixels vertically - also respectively).
Otherwise your 'HD' is getting up- or down-scaled all the time, most likely by a crappy hardware scaler. Yes, there are HDTVs sold as '720p' or '1080p' capable using these inexcusable intermediate resolutions. Why anybody buys them boggles me. You spend loads of cash on a great player and very sharp sources, then display the source scaled by a non-integer ratio on the fly, by a scaler that was included by an afterthought? How stupid can you be?
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If it had a HD tuner, it should have either true 720p or 1080p resolution (meaning 1280 or 1920 pixels wide, respectively, with greater than or equal to 720 or 1080 pixels vertically - also respectively).
Otherwise your 'HD' is getting up- or down-scaled all the time, most likely by a crappy hardware scaler. Yes, there are HDTVs sold as '720p' or '1080p' capable using these inexcusable intermediate resolutions. Why anybody buys them boggles me. You spend loads of cash on a great player and very sharp sources, then display the source scaled by a non-integer ratio on the fly, by a scaler that was included by an afterthought? How stupid can you be?