{"id":448318,"date":"2022-06-12T18:02:37","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T16:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=448318"},"modified":"2022-06-12T18:05:11","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T16:05:11","slug":"tv-resolutions-in-south-africa-tested-with-one-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/448318-tv-resolutions-in-south-africa-tested-with-one-surprise.html","title":{"rendered":"TV resolutions in South Africa tested \u2014 with one surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"

MyBroadband tested the panel resolutions of televisions on sale in South Africa and only found one irregularity where a panel had a higher resolution than advertised.<\/p>\n

To test the resolution of the televisions, MyBroadband used a digital microscope calibrated for dimensional measurements.<\/p>\n

A small part of the screen was photographed using the microscope’s magnification, making individual pixels visible.<\/p>\n

We measured how far the pixels were spaced from one another and the physical size of the screen panel.<\/p>\n

Dividing the screen’s dimensions by the spacing of the pixels, we calculated the number of pixels on the panel.<\/p>\n

We then compared the calculated screen resolution with the advertised resolution of the televisions and monitors.<\/p>\n

Most of the televisions MyBroadband tested matched the advertised resolution.<\/p>\n

One exception was an Omega-branded 50-inch TV, which advertised an HD (720p) resolution.<\/p>\n

When we inspected this TV with a digital magnifier, it revealed that the panel had a 4K resolution.<\/p>\n

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The TV still only takes up to 1080p inputs, which is the same as some other Full HD TVs we found in our previous test.<\/p>\n

The picture below shows the pixel size of an actual 720p display.<\/p>\n

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The same set seems to be available at other retailers as 1080p, so it is possible the packaging of this TV was outdated or printed incorrectly.<\/p>\n

A TV’s resolution depends on a few factors, including the controller and the panel used.<\/p>\n

Therefore, a higher resolution panel does not necessarily mean it will support higher resolution content.<\/p>\n

While having an overspecified panel in a TV is not bad, it makes you wonder how much more it would have cost the manufacturer to simply build it as a full 4K TV.<\/p>\n

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Now read: TV resolutions in South Africa tested \u2014 with two surprising results<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

MyBroadband tested the panel resolutions of televisions on sale in South Africa and only found one irregularity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":341074,"featured_media":409692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[35,2306,71436],"class_list":["post-448318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hardware","tag-headline","tag-tv","tag-tv-resolutions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/341074"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448318"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":448452,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/448318\/revisions\/448452"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/409692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=448318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=448318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}