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James Sweet
 
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Default Portable HDTV Set

wrote:
The screen aspect ratio has nothing to do with whether a tv is HDTV or
not.

If the tv can display the lines of resolution at the appropriate scan
rate for HDTV, then it is high definition. Just because it may have
bars on the top and bottom, or on the side when displaying a different
aspect ratio has nothing to do with HDTV or not.



I believe the sets he's referring to are called EDTV, they support 480p
which is an improvement over the 480i of NTSC, but nowhere near as nice
as 720p on a HD set.