[The News Bot]

Hitachi has announced that it’s about to launch the first 42-inch plasma TV to deliver a 1080i native resolution. The 42PD9700 uses a new ‘H6ALIS’ panel design to produce its effective 1080-line setup, allowing it to show a 1080-line high definition broadcast without conversion or rescaling. Also onboard...

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[Eddy Boy]

er either they have made a mistake or are they actually saying it can only display 1080i? (2 images of 540 lines) Which would mean it can't handle 1080p with out de-interlacing or just not at all.

[Neo319]

How is it possible to achieve a native resolution of 1920x1080 without conversion or rescaling, when the PD9700 has a screen resolution of only 1024x1080?

Headlining these is Hitachi's new Picture Master HD 42PD9700 plasma TV, the first 42-inch plasma TV to use a true 1080i H6ALIS panel capable of showing every line of a high definition broadcast without conversion or rescaling.

Somebody please explain before I fry my own brain.

[Booger]

Yes it's a bit of a con really !

They (Hitachi) have aleady announced that 42" 1080x1920 panels will be available in 2007, so I guess this this is just a stopgap model that doesn't have to rescale the vertical resolution, just the horizontal !

What's the point ?

You'd have to be an idiot to buy one !

[Mousepotato]

But it is HD Ready! This is the usual spin that put on technology to get poor souls to part with their cash twice. Just like TV's that are HD ready, most think they will be watching full Hi-def in the near future.

I can see it now, a salesman saying ‘that was HD Ready, this is True HD’.