[mythtv-users] native resolution vs 1080i for HDTV and SD on 1280x768 lcd?

[Steve Adeff]

On Thursday 17 November 2005 11:40, Eric Ladner wrote:
> On 11/17/05, Steve Adeff <adeffs at gmail.com> wrote:
> > From what I can tell theres no way to have Myth output vary depending on
> > the source resolution. If it did/does, and your HDTV supports 480p native
> > (ie doesn't scale it to another resolution) then it would be best to
> > output SD at 480p and HD at its native HD resolution.
>
> True, but you can set up the UI to run in something "native" and have
> the TV view in a different resolution.  I do this with my HD
> projection TV at home.  I could never get live TV to look worth a darn
> or find a decent modeline that made the screen anywhere even near the
> right size for liveTV, so I run the UI in 9?? by 5?? and switch to
> 640x480 for liveTv (automatically.. it's under the setup options
> somewhere).
>

right, but this does nothing for actual TV viewing where if the TV has a 
native 480p mode it is most likely going to display 480 content better at 
that resolution than trying to upscale it to 720p or 1080i. This makes a 
difference for HDTV users where SDTV users won't care.

Steve
HD is going to add a whole set of issues/solutions for MythTV...