Eric- you are encountering the Interlace versus progressive issue. I would have to dig a bit more, but I belive it is teh Video out that wants to do prgressive and TVs are designed for interlace. I may have this backwards. But if you want more details I may be able to dig them out.
Evan On Sat, 26 Feb 2005 12:18:27 -0700, Eric Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > So i have freevo running again, this time with dfbmga, and I'm kinda > dismayed to discover that some of the things that were wrong with the > visual design concepts in the skins are now in fact more wrong. > > It's not that they're not aesthetically pleasing, but there are some > side effects that are being ignored. > > If you notice, most PVRs and DVD players and other devices that have > interactive user interfaces often lack certain visual elements. There are > good, solid reasons for that. > > The average television - and most people have average televisions - > suffers from design limitations that the average VGA monitor doesn't. > > For example, on a cheap TV, when you have a bright white item on the > screen, the rest of the picture pincushions out around it. > > A lot of the time, especially when your video signal comes from a source > that wasn't designed from the ground up to display on a consumer > television, there is some vertical jitter. This causes horizontal lines, > and anything high contrast, to look like they're vibrating. > > And this is why if you look at the TiVo user interface, they're never > using pure white, all their lines are shaded and blended, and the > colors only have medium contrast against their neighbors. They almost never > have a horizontal line drawn on anything. > > What you pretty much never see in a commercial UI on a television is a > bright white rectangle surrounding bright white text against a dark blue > background. > > 'cause it's hard to look at when your display isn't perfect. > > Sure, I plan to buy an HD set and hook it up through a DVI cable at some > point, but i haven't got it yet. I wish the freevo ui didn't give me a > headache, in the mean time. > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide > Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. > Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Freevo-users mailing list > Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users > ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list Freevo-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
