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Resolution is NOT by definition pixels; the context must be understood to infer what is meant by "resolution". Traditionally, resolution is measured in lines per millimeter, or more properly "line pairs" (cycles) per millimeter. If you speak to an optical engineer about resolution, he will be thinking in these terms or similar, a linear measure.

Step 1 - Ignore obvious context of remarks.
Step 2 - Assert remarks must be understood in context.

Pixel count is related to the square of what is normally thought of as resolution.

The crazy thing about language is everyone gets a vote. Marketing departments *ALL OF THEM* count pixels.

https://www.sony.com/electroni...
https://www.usa.philips.com/c-...
https://www.samsung.com/levant...
https://www.lg.com/us/uhd-4k-t...
https://www.vizio.com/picture-...
https://hisense.com.au/uhd/

When someone says a display has twice resolution majority of people in the real world understand it to say display can display twice the number of pixels.

You are free to develop specialized terms or understanding that only apply to specific group or industry yet in terms of the public you are squarely on the losing side.

Thanks for the old news. I turned off "Smart Interactivity" quite some time ago.

It's just not the big deal they tried to make of it. I'd be far more worried about the sets with cameras and microphones than a TV providing viewer data to websites. Cable providers are FAR worse offenders in the data acquisition arena. But, I'll be you think(falsely) that your Netflix use protects you from that.

Vizio. Beautiful PCs with all the crapware removed. It's the only thing I recommend for anyone who wants a prebuilt PC.

Then how does Apple do it? They make not only a higher quality product but don't include crapware and have some of the largest margins in the industry. Just look what Vizio is doing: http://www.vizio.com/computing/

No crapware!

Apple spends a ton on R&D. Apple has a reputation for quality and quality of service. Apple buys part in advance.

There is a good reason the average PC is $515 and the average Apple $1400. On the other hand there is room for $800 PCs. And companies like Vizio http://www.vizio.com/computing/ are forgoing making crap to focus on the $800 market.

No they are partnering with some of the OEMs. They are desperately trying to get OEMs to understand that the reason people are willing to pay so much more for Apple is the all around better experience. Vizio one OEMs have moved to an all Signature (like http://www.vizio.com/computing/ ).

Vizio just came out with one. Looks pretty nice too

http://www.vizio.com/lcd-hdtvs/va26lhdtv10t.html
http://www.vizio.com/lcd-hdtvs/vx240m.html

They aren't copying Apple, they are copying Sony: http://www.amazon.com/Sony-NSX-32GT1-32-Inch-Featuring-Google/dp/B004BBA6B2 (who very well may have copied Apple, but that's beside the point).

http://www.vizio.com/lcd-hdtvs/va26lhdtv10t.html
http://www.vizio.com/lcd-hdtvs/vx240m.html

They aren't copying Apple, they are copying Sony: http://www.amazon.com/Sony-NSX-32GT1-32-Inch-Featuring-Google/dp/B004BBA6B2 (who very well may have copied Apple, but that's beside the point).

There's no "app-ification of the web", there's just a rush to cash in on the "app" and "appstore" buzzwords that Apple pushed from solely developer lingo into the mainstream.

Here is small sampling from Vizio's Internet Apps for the HDTV:

Amazon Video
Facebook
Flickr
Hulu Plus
Netflix
Pandora
Rhapsody
Twitter
WikiTV (The Wikipedia)

and (Coming Soon) OnLive gaming.

Add Skype to the list and support for the Kinect controller and you are in Hog Heaven.

The suite of apps for the Internet-enabled HDTV, Blu-Ray player, home theater receiver, video game console and mobile device is growing ever larger and more ambitious.

The OS is invisible - and the browser - and the ideologies and the politics which surround it - has no meaning here.

LED backlit LCD's consume about 1/2 the power of a florescent lit one, not to mention the lack of Mercury.

You mean like this fluorescent backlit 55" LCD (available from Costco) that consumes 122W, compared to this (also available from Costco), which is the LED-backlit version, which consumes 150W?

Er wait.

That's not right. Or maybe you're just making numbers up?

LED backlit LCD's consume about 1/2 the power of a florescent lit one, not to mention the lack of Mercury.

You mean like this fluorescent backlit 55" LCD (available from Costco) that consumes 122W, compared to this (also available from Costco), which is the LED-backlit version, which consumes 150W?

Er wait.

That's not right. Or maybe you're just making numbers up?

I certainly hope an 11 inch $2500 TV could meet the standard.

I'm not sure where you shop, but for well under $2500, you can get a 55" LED-backlit TV.

Those modern LED TVs are what informed people call LCDs.

Informed people call them LED TVs because it's shorter than saying LED LCD or LCD with LED backlighting. LCD, for better or worse, refers to the first LCD-based displays which do not use LED backlighting. And while LED TVs use LCDs, we need a different term to refer to them, since the ownership experience is very different...both viewing, form factor (LED TVs tend to be very thin) and when the utility bills come. So we can either spit out a long-winded and technically correct string of words, or we can pick the one feature that differentiates them from all other TVs and use that term.

Guess which one the product marketing departments chose?

LCDs generally use a lot less power than plasma TVs.

LCDs with LED backlights are even better... Those TVs already meet the 2013 california specifications.

EG, the Vizio 55" LCD tv with LED backlights draws only 150W average. So significantly bigger LCD backlit TV (20% larger area) draws only 20% of the power of a plasma TV.

Poorly chosen article. Try this: http://www.vizio.com/about.aspx?cid=3284&id=2892 Or this: http://hdtvshakedown.com/home

Might help if you actually told us WHICH LCD TV you have. If it has an ATSC tuner you are fine, if it doesn't you need a box.

Thanks for that info; you have already helped me partially. I guess that's the information I need to go checking around.

We bought a 37" LCD TV from Vizio. I'm actually not sure which model it was. Their web site shows three such 37" TV's, which all resemble ours but not exactly. It was a bargain price, so the cheapest is the most likely of the three, but I suspect that it is actually a discontinued model. Wish we could locate the instruction manuals, but I am beginning to think that for some reason it never came with any.

http://www.vizio.com/productCatalog.aspx?id=1506

If it has ATSC tuning capability, does it necessarily follow that it will be able to do that for the RF coax input? It wouldn't have ATSC for some other input but not the coax connector, right?