POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : bluray and pixar : Re: bluray and pixar Server Time
11 Oct 2024 05:21:32 EDT (-0400)
  Re: bluray and pixar  
From: scott
Date: 22 Nov 2007 07:42:38
Message: <4745793e$1@news.povray.org>
> Interesting. My PC monitor doesn't go that high. (!)
>
> Must take some serious MPEG compression to fit that onto a disk - even a 
> bluray disk has only finite storage capacity.

50 GB max IIRC.

>>> (I remember I once plugged my laptop into the TV because we didn't own a 
>>> DVD player. The Windows desktop was... unreadable.)
>>
>> If you buy a 1080p TV though, that means that it is 1920x1080 resolution. 
>> If you plug your PC into it (either by DVI->HDMI or analog VGA) and set 
>> your PC to a 1920x1080 screen mode it will look perfect.
>
> My laptop doesn't go that high. ;-)

You mean the VGA output or the LCD?  If you connected the external output to 
a LCD that was capable of 1920x1080 then it might work.

> (Also, it has only VGA and S-Video output. I managed to find an S-Video to 
> SCART converter, which allows me to connect to the TV.)

Yuk :-) you need VGA, component or DVI/HDMI for HD resolutions...


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