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Originally Posted by JSWolf
What LCD TV is SD? I thought the worst you got back when was HD Ready.
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No HD Ready TV with a DVB-T tuner could ever pickup HDTV from an aerial in UK or Ireland. The UK HD Ready sets (almost all sold in Ireland) with only DVB-T tuners didn't work in Ireland and don't work in Ireland for even SD Dgitial. They were still selling them in 2014 at least, two years after Analogue Switch off.
Also HD ready just means the HDMI will accept 1920 x 1080 and downscale it. None have 1080 display. They varied from 480 lines (some Plasma models) to 900 lines with 720 and 768 being common.
There are now some smaller screen HD Ready sets with DVB-T2 tuners for the UK market imported. As these also support H.264.
The USA supports a different system for digital from an aerial. Also there an issue with 24fps Film pulldown to 30i NTSC, so the USA had pseudo HD via component video to allow progressive DVD playback without the artefacts. Component and progressive was almost never seen in Europe before digital HDTV, because PAL doesn't need it. They simply play the 24 fps at 25fps and adjust the sound pitch by 5/6ths at the DVD mastering, which are 576 lines vs the 480 lines on NTSC DVDs. So even 720p isn't a big deal in Europe and hardly used. HD on the aerial, dish or cable is mostly 1440 x 1080 and from disk, console or computer 1920 x 1080.
HD Ready was a big lie and now a small lie. You needed a setbox (till DVB-T2 sets common) and even then the quality poorer than so called "Full HD".
Our company did surveys of all city shops selling TVs. The UK owned chains especially had the attitude, well, they'll be used with Cable or Satellite. But the UK FTA satellite has no Irish channels. It was only a few local owned speciality shops that had sourced DVB-T TVs with H.264.
Hong Kong (but not China) setboxes worked/work here. The UK setboxes for digital SD TV off air didn't/don't work here.