full hd or hd ready whats the difference?

Question

Hi. just got myself a philips 32 inch full hd lcd with the round corners and was thinking what the difference between them is? thanks all.

Answer 1

HD Ready just means that it will show an HD picture when it is fed one from an external source such as Sky HD or Blu-ray. you will have to connect it using an HDMI cable.



An HD Ready television is one that does not have a built in HD receiver. At the moment there are no HD broadcasts on Freeview so the set's own digital tuner cannot receive them. It's probable that the set's built in tuner can only receive the Standard Definition Freeview anyway.



"Full HD" is just a marketing term and only means that the tv will show HD pictures deivered in all of the HD scanning systems (i.e 720p/1080p/1080i). This term came into being in the USA because some of their early HD televisions would only show 720p pictures and the makers of later tv's wanted something to show that their sets were 'better'.



You will only get 1080p pictures from some (certainly not all) Blu-ray discs and some games consoles. There are no 1080p pictures broadcast at all: not even on satellite, cable or Freeview, and there will not be any transmitted in that standard because the broadcasting technology has been constructed to use 720p and 1080i only.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

HD ready just refers to anything that is HD eg. Sky HD, Freesat HD, etc. And therefore the TV is capable of outputting that picture.



FULL HD refers to anything that plays in 1080p such as Blu-ray or PS3 with Blu-ray built in. If the TV is 1080p ready it can output these formats.



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Answer 4

Basically a full HD TV is able to receive HD programs at 1080p resolution without the need of a third-party receiver as opposed to HD Ready which needs another decoder box like Virgin+HD, Sky+HD or Freesat+HD



I'm guessing this is a TV with FreesatHD as this is the only option available in the UK at present. so all it needs is a satellite dish to receive the free HD channels available



Early next year FreeviewHD launches so we will begin to see full HD TVs with built-in FreeviewHD

Answer 5

full hd is 1080p. hd ready is 720p and can't play blu-ray at its highest definition.



you still need equipment for the 1080p input though and use an HDMI cable, either a blu ray player, a ps3, Sky HD box, Virgin Media HD box, freesat (not the sky freesat) box or particular panasonic TV, or next year freeview hd (upgrade your box again).



you bought the right tv tho.