Hitachi launched the 42HDS69 as it’s new 42″ Plasma Display for 2006. Hitachi proclaimed it the “World’s Highest Resolution 42″ Plasma HDTV”. How is this possible? Normally 42″ Plasma Displays are some variation of 720p. Hitachi managed to make 1080 horizontal lines of resolution. However this came with a cost of only being 1024 vertical lines. So by that claim they would be 1024×1080 = 1,105,920 pixels. Versus a 1366×768 resolution which equals 1,049,088 pixels. As you can see the Hitachi has more pixels than your typical 42″ Plasma Display. The biggest questions asked is well if the resolution is 1024×1080, how is it a widescreen display? Wouldn’t that be a square? Well the answer is the 42HDS69 display uses rectanglar pixels in order to achieve this resolution.

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