So a board I frequent has members who constantly post video clips referenced as "1080p" when said video clips have never been released on HD DVD or Blu-Ray. Some board members defend this by claiming "someplace in Europe/Scandinavia" broadcast them in 1080p".
No proof of said broadcast is ever stated and questions about the validity of the 1080p broadcasts are usually met with banishment. Help me out with some logical arguments I can link to. Here is a typical question and response.
No proof of said broadcast is ever stated and questions about the validity of the 1080p broadcasts are usually met with banishment. Help me out with some logical arguments I can link to. Here is a typical question and response.
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Seeing that the resolution is 1920x816, doesn't that make it 816p and not 1080p? Because I thought 1080p meant it was 1920 x 1080.
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1080p is a marketing buzzword now for HDTVs carrying 16x9 ratios with the resolution of 1920x1080 to fill up the 16x9 dimension. But many "theatrical" films and especially epic ones like Lord of the Rings and Star Wars were shot at a wider aspect ratios of 2.35:1 or 2.42:1 , so this is wider than your 16x9 screens can fill up. So you will get black bars at the top and bottom of your screens; this is why you will see many movies here with 1920x816 description. This is still called 1080p but it is not filling up your HDTV completely....maybe you could say it has less vertical resolution but it still carries 1920 horizontal lines, thus it is called 1080p.