You guys might not know this, but most Television, NOT MONITOR, manufacturers stand by the little bit of scaling on their 768 screens. I know the spec is 720p, but when I was at CEDIA (big integrated theater trade show in Indianapolis, IN), all the manufacturers were standing by their 768 screens as the way things are going to be for now on. I didn't have time really get into the details, but they all assured us that 768 was the way to go for a 720p signal.
Additionally, I have yet to find a person who can actually see, and point out, the artifacts created by the little bit of scaling. Now, keep in mind, we're not looking at bargain basement displays, but rather the top of the lines. Don't kill the messenger, -Oscilated -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dirk Meyer Sent: Monday, June 12, 2006 1:23 PM To: [email protected] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [Freevo-users] [Slightly OT] LCD-TVs - what spec? Torsten Seemann wrote: >> It is HD-Ready. So it has either DVI or HDMI. IIRC there are >> connectors to switch between them, but I may be wrong. > > Yes there are, for example: > http://www.ramelectronics.net/html/DVI-HDMI_adapters.html That solves one problem. >> Yes. Some LCD-TVs don't like the pc input. E.g. they only accept >> 1280x768 and scale it to the screen resolution. This is bad, I want to >> access every pixel. And I also don't like most panels with 1366x786 >> pixel. Why this resolution? HDTV is 1200x720 or 19??x1080. I don't >> want to scale content if possible. > > I didn't realise that; thanks for the info. Sorry, not 1200x720, 1280x720. But anyway, graphic cards can only show stuff mod8, so you can either use 1360x768 or 1368x768. Or you use 1024x768 and let the tv stretch horizontal. Or feed 720p to it and let it scale. Everything bad. Is someone here with some a good setup? I plan to buy a pc with nvidia card and a sharp lcd. Dischi P.S.: German readers should read the c't from two weeks ago, there is a test with lcd-tv and pc input -- I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them. -- Isaac Asimov _______________________________________________ Freevo-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freevo-users
