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Booh! Now that I have your attention, let’s begin our lesson. You’re familiar with HDTV right? Good! What you may not know is that when HDTV first came out it was 1280×720 pixels (0.9 megapixels). It looked pretty good. Then a few years lated they came out with something called FullHD, which is 1920×1080 pixels (2.1 megapixels). This is what HDTV was originally designed for, but because of the cost of producing TVs at that resolution was ahead of its time. Now there’s something called Quad HD, which is 4x the size of FullHD. Quad HD is 3820×2160 (8.1 megapixels). Hope you’re not getting dizzy with all the numbers.

I was surprised to learn that Quad HDTVs are already being produced, but only for exclusive business that can afford them (*cough* oil companies *cough*). What was even more surprising was that Westinghouse was manufacturing them. There is a bigger player who showed off their Quad HDTV. Samsung displayed it’s massive 82″ Quad HDTV at the Society for Information Display (SID) International Symposium.

I love Samsung. They make the coolest TVs at reasonable prices. Do NOT buy a Sony! A premium (XBR5) Sony will cost you twice as much as a premium (A750) Samsung.

Back to the topic of Quad HDs. With that 82″ Quad HD, you’ll be able to put your nose to the screen and still not be able to see the pixels. If you’ve never seen how a pixel looks before, now is the time. Locate a LCD TV near you and put your nose against it. Turn the TV on, and you will see what a pixel is. It is a square dot. Those tiny dots make up a picture, kind of like a mosaic. It’s getting harder and harder to see pixels even on FullHD screens, which is a good thing.

It’ll probably be at least 5 years before we start to see Quad HDTVs. No need to worry about your FullHD TV being outdated anytime soon. But for God’s sake, don’t buy a Sony. Sony’s are good, but they cost more than they are supposed to.