# Hitachi 42" 1080 Plasma for 699 (with sears card)

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**Created:** [November 20, 2007, 7:47am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hitachi-42-1080-plasma-for-699-with-sears-card/39033 "2007-11-20T07:47:01Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 27, 2007, 4:59am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/hitachi-42-1080-plasma-for-699-with-sears-card/39033/30 "2007-11-27T04:59:24Z")

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[quote=“66impalass,post:29,topic:39033"”]

To both of these, I would be willing to put money on the fact that the difference is your source, not the TV.

A good source will net a better result than a better resolution. People don’t understand this concept for some reason, but what ever pay a premium for something that looks better on paper than on anything else.

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Say I have a good 1080p source… like a blue ray movie… or a computer, and i put that source onto a 720p screen, the picture quality is not going to be as good as 1080p because you are wasting half the source data on a display that can’t handle it. Also downscaling to a lesser resolution is going to degrade the quality because the video is not playing at its native resolution (gives jaggies on the edges).:nono:

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