POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : HDTV resolution : Re: HDTV resolution Server Time
4 Sep 2024 09:20:39 EDT (-0400)
  Re: HDTV resolution  
From: nemesis
Date: 28 May 2010 13:50:00
Message: <web.4c00021430f13b98773c9a3e0@news.povray.org>
"Fredrik Eriksson" <fe79}--at--{yahoo}--dot--{com> wrote:
> On Fri, 28 May 2010 04:59:19 +0200, nemesis <nam### [at] gmailcom> wrote:
> >
> > Damn, why can't they simply use 1:1 pixel instead of re-scaling smaller
> > pictures?  bizarre...
>
> I think the software simply creates a 1920x1080 image (by downscaling
> larger images, and adding borders to smaller ones) regardless of display
> panel. That image then gets sent to a final scaler that fits the image to
> the panel resolution. I am guessing they do it that way because it lets
> them use the exact same software on all models.
>
> For "best" results you should pre-scale any images to 1920x1080 before
> putting them on the USB storage.

thanks for the advice, dude.


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