[mythtv-users] 1080 playback on 1680 x 945 18.4" laptop screen

[James Crow]

On Mon, 2009-03-16 at 13:07 -0400, diane mittnik wrote:
> We're considering purchasing a laptop with a NVIDIA GeForce 9600M GT
> graphics card (1gb dedicated video ram).  The resolution of the screen
> is 1680 x 945 on a 18.4" screen size.  The laptop selection is
> partially influenced by the nvidia card in the hope we can use it as a
> frontend with mythtv and VDPAU when 0.22 is released.
> 
> 1. Is it possible to view 1080i/p (mostly interested in 1080i for the
> foreseeable future) with 1680x945 resolution, or is downscaling video
> to 945 basically making the resolution as good as or even worse than
> 720p?
> 
> 2.  Is the 16ms screen response rate going to be a major problem?
> 
> 3. Should we wait in hopes that 1080 native resolution laptop screens
> are coming soon?  Are they?  We would expect them to be coming out as
> the US is transitioning now to digital...
> 
> thanks,
> 
> Di.

I occasionally use my desktop as a FE. It has a 1680x1050 22" LCD screen
and OTA ATSC 1080i material looks fine on it. 

Cheers,
James