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Netflix HD at 1080p is up to $16/month. The SD version without ads at 720 is only $10. Most the TV stations in town still broadcast at 720p but my ageing Sony TV still shows them at full screen - and they look fine. Can I subscribe to Netlix Basic at 720p and still get a full screen image - rather than 720 p in a letter box?
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IIRC Netflix makes it pretty easy to change plans so give it a try you can always switch back. As long as your TV is 16:9 there shouldn't be any letterboxing.
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If you feed a TV a video signal with a lower resolution than the panel it will always upscale it to fit the whole screen. They never show lower resolutions at 1:1 pixel mapping.
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Nearly all TVs will automatically upscale a lower-res image to fit as well as it can; if the panel is 16:9, and you feed it a 16:9 signal, it should go right to the edges of the screen. This behavior can be defeated in many TVs, so that you do end up with a smaller image surrounded by black, but it's not normally the default behavior.
Most likely, if you drop back to 720p, you'll get a full screen image, and you'll barely be able to tell the difference between that and 1080p. For moving images, if you sit close enough, you could most likely see a difference between a 720p and a 4K signal, but even then the difference would probably not bother you very much. The bump from earlier signals to 720p is major; the improvements after that are much smaller. 720p->1080p is not a huge step forward, and you probably won't mind the lower res at all.
You might notice it more with game content, especially ones with text of any type, where every resolution step is typically quite visible. For TV viewing, however, it'll be fine, to the point that you might not even be sure if it's 720p or 1080p.
