[mythtv-users] resolution discussion
Jarod C. Wilson
jcw at wilsonet.com
Mon Sep 8 10:18:46 EDT 2003
On Sunday, Sep 7, 2003, at 22:58 US/Pacific, John Morris wrote:
> 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.
Ack. I didn't drill into their site far enough. I looked at their
description for their "HD" sets, and it claimed 720 to 1080; I guess
1024 is within that range, and I took what they said the wrong way
(probably Gateway's intention). Even their HDTVs are castrated...
> Why oh why can't a single
> vendor get it right?
I dunno...
> 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.
While you're right on the Gateway set, I'm afraid you're wrong on this
one. Apple's 23" Cinema HD display has a native resolution of 1920 x
1200. The 20" (non-HD) display is 1680 x 1050.
> 480 and 720 rescale reasonably cleanly
> to 1080 but not 1024 (or 1050). And why 1024 horizontally? Talk about
> non-square pixels!
Yes, ick.
> Rule #1: Vendors come as close to outright lying as the law allows
> when they print specs.
Gateway does. They've done it before, too...
>> 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!
:)
--Jarod
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Jarod C. Wilson, RHCE
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