[mythtv-users] OT: HDTV TV's

[Michael T. Dean]

On 05/11/2006 01:46 PM, Steven Adeff wrote:

>On 5/11/06, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
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>>Basically, I'm saying there's more information available in the input
>>signal than can be represented by an output device using a 1:1 pixel
>>mapping.
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>Um, what?! There is no way possible to have more information than the
>1:1 pixel mapping. It's not there, sure, you could *guess* at what's
>there, but that doesn't mean the information is actually there, its
>just rounding math.
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I'm not saying there's more information than the pixels specify.  I'm 
saying it's impossible to fully reproduce that information specified by 
the pixels with only the number of pixels in the input signal.  If you 
still don't see the difference, keep re-reading that sentence...

Basically, all the posts in this thread that argue my point seem to 
assume that for a fixed-pixel device, the display resolution measured as 
a number of discrete pixels is identical to the display resolution 
measured as the number of resolvable lines.

Mike