HDTV Secrets

Toshiba has established themselves as a company willing to try something different when it comes to technology. They are one of the companies trying to lessen electronic waste (e-waste) in the environment by getting rid of toxic vinyl plastics and brominated flame retardants in their products (although they’ve pushed their original deadline back to 2012). [...]

Technically, a TV qualifies as High Definition, or HDTV, if it has video resolution substantially higher than old traditional television systems (Standard-Definition or SDTV). The line between the two resolution qualities, however, seems to have extremely blurry edges. In order to classify as hi-def, a signal must have 720 horizontal lines of progressively scanned pixels [...]