576x320 video. I play it on an 18-inch screen, at fullscreen, and the quality is [i]horrid[/i].
However, burning the video to a DVD, and playing it on a 28 inch TV (One of those big, square TVs), the quality is EXCELLENT.
How does that make sense, and how does that work?
Upscaling I believe
[QUOTE=Zenpod;24074086]Upscaling I believe[/QUOTE]
How can upscaling preserve the quality of the image, and even make it better?
The DVD player doesn't upscale, it transmits data to the television, which keeps it at the original resolution, and original PPI.
This may be completely wrong, but it is the best way I can think of it at this time.
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While when you increase the window size, you are increasing the resolution, while maintaining original PPI, hence horrible quality.
This can be fixed by using a higher quality media player, what are you using?
The difference in quality could have to do with your viewing distance.
If the tv is a crt, it has greater color fidelity and contrast than an lcd. In my experience, colors blend well without jagged edges with crts.
Is the 18 inch an LCD? And the 28 inch a standard def CRT?
The CRT is playing it back at about the same resolution at the native video size. Standard definition TVs hide small details from compression a lot better than higher res TVs. Whereas, the LCD is most likely stretching it to fit the screen.
[QUOTE=Demache;24074419]Is the 18 inch an LCD? And the 28 inch a standard def CRT?
The CRT is playing it back at about the same resolution at the native video size. Standard definition TVs hide small details from compression a lot better than higher res TVs. Whereas, the LCD is most likely stretching it to fit the screen.[/QUOTE]
The 18 inch is an LCD screen on a laptop, and the 28 inch is one of those lump-TVs. So I guess that's CRT.
if its an old square crt tv, my guess is its resolution is way lower than your monitor.
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard-definition_television[/url]
Eh. Probably.
So what you're saying is that if I lower my resolution to 620x480, and play the video fullscreen, it'll look better?
No it wont...
The reason DVD's look better on a CRT is the way the pixels are spread out. For an LCD TV it's interpolating pixels and showing you those extra "made-up" pixels. With a large CRT TV it can show it 1:1 with no resizing. The end result is only showing actual pixels rather than interpolated pixels, resulting in a sharper picture.
Even if it is lower resolution.
Simply put, your TV is much closer to the resolution of the video so it doesn't stretch/degrade quality as much, while on your high resolution laptop screen it has to stretch the shit out of the video, so it will look terrible.
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