>> "only".  What resolution do run your desktop in?  Now imagine dividing 
>> that by 4.  It wouldn't be pretty...
>
> As far as I know, a normal TV operates at something like 300x200 or so. 
> That means that 4x would only be 600x400 - still extremely low.

The shorts I watched last night were 1920x1080 resolution...

> (I remember I once plugged my laptop into the TV because we didn't own a 
> DVD player. The Windows desktop was... unreadable. Literally, you just 
> couldn't read *any* of the writing! But then, I guess usually you sit 12 
> feet from your TV screen, so they're not going to bother making it able to 
> display tiny writing like that...)

If you buy a 1080p TV though, that means that it is 1920x1080 resolution. 
If you plug your PC into it (either by DVI->HDMI or analog VGA) and set your 
PC to a 1920x1080 screen mode it will look perfect.

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