On 01/23/2006 02:21 PM, Adam Propeck wrote: > Jared, What are you displaying on? I'm jealous. I really like my 720p > native LCD projector, but 1080p.... dang! To answer for him:
http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/mythtv/users/169614#169614 And, I have to say that 1080p looks great on my Samsung DLP (HL-R6768W). I told myself I wouldn't buy an HDTV that wasn't HD--i.e that did only 1280x720 when the ATSC spec allows 1920x1080. However, now that I got the 1080p TV, I'm thinking that--even though the ATSC spec won't add higher resolutions--manufacturers may, in fact, create even higher resolution TV's, anyway... Although a 1080p TV can do dot-for-dot display of a 1920x1080 image (i.e. 1:1 pixel mapping), sampling theory says that given a certain sampling resolution (i.e. 1920x1080), displaying the image at full quality requires an even higher output resolution. I didn't realize this until I tried to figure out why 720p looks even better on my TV than on 720p-native TV's at 1:1 pixel mapping. Before, I thought the 1080p TV would give me "perfect" 1080i/p and that 720p would look only slightly worse than on a 720p set because of the scaling--I guess I had forgotten the 2-pixels-per-dot rule of thumb I used to use for printing images. Even though I don't have 2-pixels-per-dot for 720p, I'm much closer to it for 720p than for 1080p ;). Oh, and NTSC DVD's look astounding on the TV (where I've got 2 pixels per dot and then some). :) Mike _______________________________________________ mythtv-users mailing list [email protected] http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users
