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Re:The best 4K monitor doesn’t exist yet by QuotedForTruth on Tuesday June 17, 2014 @04:46PM (#7906892)
Ive never seen "HD Ready" refer to 720. As I remember it, HD Ready meant that the TV was HD (720 or 1080), but it didnt include an ATSC or QAM tuner. It was more like a monitor than a true TV.

The distinction I've seen with 1080p is calling it True or Full HD.

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Re:The best 4K monitor doesn’t exist yet by huskyr on Tuesday June 17, 2014 @05:04PM (#7906991)
Maybe this is specific per country, but in the Netherlands 'HD Ready' always referred to 720 instead of 1080.
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Re:The best 4K monitor doesn’t exist yet by jwr on Tuesday June 17, 2014 @05:33PM (#7907143)
Actually, it referred to 768, as that was the number of lines that the cheap panels had. Which meant that even to display 720p content you had to scale it.
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