[mythtv-users] resolution discussion

[John Morris]

On Sun, 7 Sep 2003, Jarod C. Wilson wrote:

> Uh, the 42" Gateway plasma TV I'm seeing is a full-blown HDTV, and can 
> do up to 1080 lines...

No it can't.  And you had me all worked up.  :)  I'm looking at Gateway's
page and they have two 42" plasma screens, one is DVD resolution (852x480)
and the new "HD" one is 1024x1024.  Obviously designed for Microsoft's
MediaPC or something else not related to TV.  Why oh why can't a single
vendor get it right?  Almost as insane as Apple's top of the line flat
panel at 1050 vertical resolution.  Close but no cigar, break out the
rescaler for all HD resolutions.  480 and 720 rescale reasonably cleanly
to 1080 but not 1024 (or 1050).  And why 1024 horizontally?  Talk about
non-square pixels!

Rule #1: Vendors come as close to outright lying as the law allows when 
they print specs.

> One other reason is HDTV captures. You'll want quite a bit higher 
> resolution for those (my pcHDTV card should arrive sometime this week). 
> I'm actually going to be running 1920x1080 at that point, with my 
> MythTV box hooked to my 47" HDTV via component video, rather than the 
> current S-Video hookup.

Drool!

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