TechnoBabble

The actual display doesn't matter whether it will display or HD or not. The new converter boxes, as well as digital TV's will take the picture and convert it to a format your TV can display. FOX8 along with other stations broadcast HD now, sust as football, American Idol, House, Bones, 24, Prison Break, etc. If your TV has a HD display, you will see it in full HD. If you display is not HD, then your TV or converter box will change the HD to whatever format your TV displays.

It is the same thing as you can watch a color program on a black and white TV. It just will not be in color if the TV isn't a color TV.

Plasma, LCD, LED, DLP, these are all light weight display technologies. Your old TV has what is called a CRT or glass display. The problem with CRT displays are their weight when they get large. A 38 inch CRT widescreen weighs about 250 pounds and is the largest CRT screen size that is made because the weight and stress on the glass. In comparision, a 50 inch DLP, (digital light projection) which is a little LCD screen with mirrors projected on to a smoked colored screen weighs about 60 pounds and can be mounted on your wall. Both will do HD, one weighs a heck of a lot less for more viewing area.

Plasma is another kind of display technology that is light weight. Same goes for LCD. All weigh less than 100 pounds for some really BIG screens, something CRTs can never be in those sizes.

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There are actually 18 different digital formats in the ATSC protocol with only 2 being HD. Those two being 720p and 1080i. Since then 1080p has come out but since there isn't enough bandwidth for 1080p currently to transmitted, it isn't in the protocol, but newer TV's will display 1080p and the new HD DVD's will provide 1080p.

FOX and ABC and their respective subnets transmit 720p for the smoothness in fast action sports like football and racing. CBS and NBC and their respective subnets broadcast 1080i for the improved still image quality. Both are considered HD because they take the same amount of bandwidth and they both provide approximately the same number of pixels on the screen at the same time. 720p at 900,000 and 1080i at just over 1 million. Also 720p displays all 720 lines at the same time like a computer does while 1080i displays only 540 lines at a time requiring the single picture to be sent twice for the full 1080i picture.

It does get complecated.