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The pixel concentration on my Nokia E70 is amazing - they manage to cram 352 pixels in a width of 34.5mm. That's about 10.2 pixels per millimeter. So I wondered - how does that measure up to today's High Definition TV's? Even better - how does that measure up to today's True High Definition (1080p) TV's?

I surfed online and hunted down the smallest 1080p HDTV I could find. I chose LCD over Plasma since LCD has a much higher concentration of pixels. There's probably something smaller but the smallest I found was the Philips 37PF9731D 37" LCD. It measures 1160mm across, the actual screen size was 995mm in width. A 1080p HDTV has 1920 pixels across, that's only 1.9 pixels per millimeter - compare that to my Nokia E70's 10.2 pixels per millimeter.

So - if we applied my E70's concentration of pixels to a one meter-wide TV display - you'd be rockin' "5737p". That's 10,200 pixels horizontally and 5,737 vertically. It's over 5x more pixels in each direction compared to true HD. And over 7x more pixels in each direction compared to normal HD. And about 14x more pixels in each direction compared to old SDTV's.

5737p would have about 58 million pixels total, 1080p (True HD) has about 2 million pixels total, 720p (normal HD) has about 1 million pixels total, and old widescreen SDTV's have about 337 thousand pixels total.

So basically - Go out and buy yourself an expensive HDTV, and you'll be light years behind in technology ;-)

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Great post ! And well documented.
Help me to build a N80 cluster and connect to my Blu-ray player...

Uh oh.
HD, a true joke ?

http://www.zdar.net/joomla/content/view/529/ :-)

Posted by: Benoit Darcy | November 20, 2006 04:14 PM

Funny thing that Nokia seems to not going to produe more handsets with such screen...

Posted by: Alexandre Silva | November 20, 2006 04:42 PM

you mean 5,737 pixels vertically, not diagonally.

Posted by: mike | November 20, 2006 07:06 PM

HD, a true joke ?

Well Blu-ray certainly is a joke, still using MPEG2 !!

Posted by: Phil | November 21, 2006 10:41 AM

Funny thing that Nokia seems to not going to produce more handsets with such screen...

I guess it's all about compatibility. There's a LOT of QVGA multimedia content out there. And for developers, having all these different resolutions make things more difficult.

Posted by: Phil | November 21, 2006 10:45 AM

you mean 5,737 pixels vertically, not diagonally.

Whoops! Thanks for that! :-)

Posted by: Phil | November 21, 2006 10:46 AM

I understand that, and i understand that this kind of screen consumes too much energy from the batteries.. Unfortunately, it seems brands can't develop better batteries... every thing is best bigger and more energy demanding, but the batteries have seen little evolution... :(

Posted by: Alexandre Silva | November 21, 2006 07:22 PM

How about them apples? 800x480 in a 3 inch package

http://www.ringnokia.com/2006/12/dear_nokia_call.html

Posted by: Stefan Constantinescu | December 7, 2006 08:18 AM

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