The recently released Samsung LN52B750 52 inch 1080p LCD HDTV has been leaving stores in record breaking fashion. This has come to no surprise to me as it’s set higher standards for the term HDTV which has left competition lagging behind.

The Samsung LN52B750 comes with 1080p resolution. This is a grey area when it comes to finding the best HDTV for most people as they don’t really know what 1080p even is!

1080p stands for 1080 “progressive scans” which means that there are 1080 lines of vertical resolution (or 1080 prpgressive scans) on your television’s screen. Previously, the highest number of progressive scans available to buy was 720p.

The more progressive scans a television has, the more pixels the screen will have, and the better quality it’s images will be. A good example for me to use to explain all about this would be mobile phone cameras. If you were to compare a mobile phone’s images with images of a top of the line digital camera, the quality of the images of the digital camera would be far more sharper. The reason for this is because its images have more pixels and the same principal goes for TVs.

Try to imagine your TV screen as a grid of hundreds of thousands of tiny little squares on it. Each square of this grid is called a pixel and each pixel can only be one color at any one time.

If you replaced this grid with one with many more, smaller squares or “pixels”, then the images of your HDTV would be much clearer and sharper from then on. This is because the smaller each pixel is, the more detail can be shown on screen.

Let’s assume you’re watching a 1080p HDTV with typical 16:9 widescreen aspect ratio. Your TV will have 1920 lines of horizontal resolution and 1080 lines of vertical resolution. Now, that means that you’ll be getting 1920 x 1080 pixels making up your images. That’s 2,073,600 pixels – and crystal clear images.

So always remember the higher the number of progressive scans on your high def television, the more pixels your screen will have, and in turn, higher quality images will be shown. 1080p quality is the highest available to buy nowadays, so quite simply, shows the highest quality pictures.

As you well know, the Samsung LN52B750 52 inch LCD HDTV comes with 1080p – And I must say, 52 inches of crystal clear image is absolutely mind blowing!