[mythtv-users] LCD HDTV recommendations (that are Myth friendly)...

[Sam Jacobs]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 3:52 PM, Stroller <linux.luser at myrealbox.com> wrote:
>  Macs use font-sharpening in a way that is famously different from the
>  way it's done on Windows (see <http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/
>  2007/06/12.html>), and I think this _may_ just be a side-effect of that.
>
>  Certainly, when looking at my Mac's desktop and displaying windows on
>  my 42" 1080p, I could see little "odd pixels" of colour, say a hint
>  of red underneath the top arch of an "o", and the verticals of
>  different characters seemed to be different widths. I was quite
>  bothered by this when I first got my TV - in fact, I couldn't believe
>  it, at first, and it was only after several viewings that I decided
>  to post (here?) about it. Before doing so, however, I happened to
>  look _very closely_ at the laptop's own screen, and found the same
>  artefacts there ("artefacts" is a very good word for them, BTW).

This is sub-pixel smoothing. I had written a bit of an explanation,
but I'll just say how to turn it off on Mac OS X:
- Open System Preferences
- Go to Appearance
- Set "Font smoothing style" to "Standard - best for CRT"

Note that this only takes effect in newly launched applications.

Sam

>  Summary: Apple don't expect you to be reading text on a 42" 1080p.
>
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>
>  Stroller.
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