jkjsooner
1/28/2008, 02:53 PM
I was going to post this in the consolidated threat but I wasn't sure if it would be seen there....
I will soon buy a flat panel (LCD) high definition TV. However, I am concerned about the image quality I see on a lot of TV's - whether it's in my office lobby or at the gym. When I look at small text (like a scroller at the bottom of the screen), it almost always looks very rough with shadows or irregular edges. In many cases these may actually be standard def feeds. I'm not sure.
Is that common with pixelated displays? Is that a problem for you all who have flat panel HDTV's? I guess with a standard definition CRT the text might just be a little blurry which doesn't seem to bother me as much. Is this an issue with scaling the signal to the pixels? Am I being paranoid?
That brings up another question. Where did they come up with 720 and 1080? I know it has to do with bandwidth/bit rates, etc. It just doesn't make sense to me that there isn't a clear relationship between the two (other than being divisible by 80 which 480 is as well). It would seem making an easy scale from native resolution to pixels would be a huge benefit....
That being said, when you guys view a 720p signal on a TV with 1080 horizontal pixels, do you get wierd effects like I described with the small text?
I will soon buy a flat panel (LCD) high definition TV. However, I am concerned about the image quality I see on a lot of TV's - whether it's in my office lobby or at the gym. When I look at small text (like a scroller at the bottom of the screen), it almost always looks very rough with shadows or irregular edges. In many cases these may actually be standard def feeds. I'm not sure.
Is that common with pixelated displays? Is that a problem for you all who have flat panel HDTV's? I guess with a standard definition CRT the text might just be a little blurry which doesn't seem to bother me as much. Is this an issue with scaling the signal to the pixels? Am I being paranoid?
That brings up another question. Where did they come up with 720 and 1080? I know it has to do with bandwidth/bit rates, etc. It just doesn't make sense to me that there isn't a clear relationship between the two (other than being divisible by 80 which 480 is as well). It would seem making an easy scale from native resolution to pixels would be a huge benefit....
That being said, when you guys view a 720p signal on a TV with 1080 horizontal pixels, do you get wierd effects like I described with the small text?