Yes, I know. I just chose the wrong email in the thread to respond to :) I forgot to mention that to Adam, that there is no way that uncompressed MPEG (or H.264/AVC) video is 1920x1200 uncompressed. The MPEG or AVC standard (and now VC-1 from SMPTE/Microsoft) is really 1920x1088. It is 1088 because the dimensions are multiples of 16 what is called a macroblock. The last 8-pixels are clipped and we have 1080 vertically. It is not scaled to get 1080 but just clipped.
Gaurav On 11/12/05, J. C. O'Connell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It wasn't me who suggested HDTV was ever 1200x1920. > BTW, a lot of computer monitors can display the > progressive TV formats with a simple analog component > video to RGBHV converter box and the displayed format is > unchanged. I am doing this now with one of the Dell > P991s I bought. I have it connected to the 480P > analog component outputs on my Sony DVD recorder.... > jco > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gaurav Aggarwal [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2005 10:04 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Modern PC hardware, Was: Re: Full Frame > > > There are two types of standards: one for TV and one for computers. A lot of > flatpanel monitors can handle both these but not all. Most TV can still > handle only TV formats and most computer monitors cannot display TV formats. > Let us distinguish these so that we do not misuse the terms and confuse > everyone: > > There is no HDTV (uncompessed or otherwise) that is 1920x1200. HDTV is often > referred to as 1920x1080 or 1280x720. The TV formats are as follows: > > 480i or NTSC: 720x480 interlaced > 480p: 720x480 progressive > 576i or PAL: 720x576 interlaced > 576p: 720x576 progressive > 720p: 1280x720 progressive > 1080i: 1920x108i interlaced > > In addition, 720p and 1080i have two versions for 60 hz (Japan, US) and 50 > hz (Europe). Where have you guys heard of 1920x1200 and down-conversion? I > am pretty sure there is no such thing. > > Computer formats and sizes are a different story. They go as > VGA: 640x480 > SVGA: 800x600 > XGA: 1024x768 > SXGA: 1280x1024 > UXGA: 1600x1200 > WSXGA: 1650/x1050 > WUXGA: 1920x1200 (if you refer to this then this is a computer format and > not HDTV) > > Hope this clears some of the doubts. > Gaurav
