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Our TV is a Fujitsu Plasmavision P42HTA51E. In the Specifications section of the manual (which you can view here) it says 

WIDE PLASMA DISPLAY
Series Name: P42HTA51E
Product Name: P42HTA51ESb
Screen size:
  42" wide screen:
  92.2 cm (W) x 52.2 cm (H) (106 cm diagonal)
  36.3 inch (W) x 20.6 inch (H) (41.7 inchdiagonal)
Aspect ratio: 16:9 (wide)
Number of pixels: 1024 (H) x 1080 (V)

So, the physical aspect ratio is 16:9, but the number of horizontal pixels is less than the number of vertical pixels. I'd expect it to be 1920 pixels wide, for a 16:9 ratio.

Can anyone explain what's going on here?

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The pixels here are simply not squares. It's generally not common nowadays but in the past most TVs (and also PC monitors) don't have square pixels

There are many cases that the horizontal resolution is less than one expected when assuming pixels are square, for example DV's 1440×1080 16:9 full HD resolution and Atari's 80×192

The manually here is probably incorrect. All the sources I can find list the resolution as 1024×1024 and not 1024×1080

A curious-looking but still HD Ready 1,024 x 1,024i native resolution is achieved via the use of Alternate Lighting of Surfaces technology, whereby extended phosphor areas are used, and a system for lighting the gaps between pixels, as well as the pixels themselves, allows the set to effectively double its perceived horizontal resolution.

https://www.techradar.com/reviews/audio-visual/televisions/plasma-and-lcd-tvs/fujitsu-p42hta51es-106567/review

Other key specifications of the P42HTA51ES include a respectable claimed contrast ratio of 3000:1, and a rather odd looking native resolution of 1024x1024i. This comes about from the TV’s use of Alternate Lighting of Surfaces technology, or AliS for short.

https://www.trustedreviews.com/reviews/fujitsu-p42hta51es-42in-plasma-tv-fujitsu-p42hta51es-42in-plasma-tv-page-2

Some other sources:

The square resolution is not strange, since we also see it in SVCD where videos are stored at 480×480 with a pixel aspect ratio of 4:3. That's exactly the same as in the DV case mentioned above where 1440×1080 is 4:3 and when multiplied with the pixel aspect ratio of 4:3 gives a 16:9 image

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