Can I watch my videos on a Hi-Def TV?
Let's say you're in the market for a Hi-Def TV, but you've got a camcorder at home. Well, you probably have a standard-def camcorder, and the good new is high definition television sets are all set to accept standard-def signals. What you might find though is that your standard-def signal, called a four by three, is square, it's not rectangular and that high-def TV you bought was. So what you're going to see on the left and the right is just black bars to fill in that space. Newer camcorders, even standard-def, will allow you to shoot wide-screen environments, and maybe fill that up, depending on which camera you have. Or, maybe you've bought a new camcorder recently and you decided to go to high definition camcorders, well those are perfectly set for high definition televisions as well. One of the things to consider though is that you may have bought a 1080, or what's called a 1080-I, high resolution camcorder, but your television may only be a 720-P. The TV will take that 1080 signal and scale it just fine to play on 720, but you're not really getting full resolution out of that camcorder. To do that, you really need a high definition television set, which is rated at 1080-I.
