THOUSANDS of TV buyers may have unwittingly bought the "wrong kind" of TV for the next generation of DVD-players.
Consumers who have failed to read the detail on the sides of the TVs have bought sets which will work with HD-TV services but will not give perfect pictures with the new Blu-Ray DVD-players.
According to experts, the technology to go for is 1080p,
which is the format used by the discs, and which shows the picture in 1080 lines. The other two formats on the market include 720p, which has fewer lines, and 1080i, which has 1080 lines but only redraws 50% of them at any one time in order to save on bandwidth.
A 1080p set should give the better picture, but will typically cost about £1,000 compared to £700 for a "conventional" HD set.
Michael Biggs, the principal researcher for consumer magazine Which? said: "Whatever kind of HD-TV you buy will be good enough for HD–TV and will give you a great picture. But if you have a large screen, you will notice a difference between the 1080i and the 1080p and the 1080p will be better. They will both be great pictures, but the 1080p will be that much better. And for some people, who want to pay for the best home cinema experience that will matter."
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