{"id":103,"date":"2007-08-24T23:58:48","date_gmt":"2007-08-25T03:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hdhead.com\/wordpress\/?p=103"},"modified":"2007-08-24T23:58:48","modified_gmt":"2007-08-25T03:58:48","slug":"size-difference-between-hd-and-sd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hdhead.com\/?p=103","title":{"rendered":"HD vs. SD Size Difference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\">It\u2019s larger. As much as 6 times larger.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">High definition video is certainly larger than standard definition video.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">1080 format frame is 5.33 (perceived geometry) or 5.93 (resolving power) times larger than your old North American <st1:place><st1:city>NTSC<\/st1:city>  <st1:state>SD<\/st1:state><\/st1:place> video.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">720 format frame is 2.37 (perceived geometry) or 2.63 (resolving power) times larger than SD.<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Imagine 6 TVs stacked in two rows of three TVs. That\u2019s roughly how much 1080 format is larger than SD [Fig. 1].<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hdhead.com\/illustrations\/HD_SD_size.jpg\" title=\"SD and HD frame sizes\" alt=\"SD and HD frame sizes\" height=\"640\" width=\"430\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Fig. 1. HD and SD Frame Size Comparison<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s larger. As much as 6 times larger. High definition video is certainly larger than standard definition video. 1080 format frame is 5.33 (perceived geometry) or 5.93 (resolving power) times larger than your old North American NTSC SD video. 720 format frame is 2.37 (perceived geometry) or 2.63 (resolving power) times larger than SD. Imagine &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hdhead.com\/?p=103\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">HD vs. SD Size Difference<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technical-info"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhead.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hdhead.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}