1080p movies not showing very well on my 1440p monitor

[Stp52x]

I must say that of all my concerns I wasn't anticipating this problem when I purchased the PB278Q. About a week ago I upgraded a conventional run of the mill 720p 32" television set to this monitor and ever since then I've noticed a markedly poorer quality from the movies I watch. They are far more pixelated and hazy in quality. Now it's difficult to find movies in 1440p to compare the quality, but I imagine that then the quality would be profoundly better. But I'm simply wondering why the quality is so poor at 720 and 1080p. Is it quite simply that they are being stretched to fit the screen? And if so is there anything I can do to remedy the problem?

 

[BarkingGhostar]

"wondering why the quality is so poor at 720 and 1080p"

The same reason 480 i/P looks so poor on a 1080P monitor.

 

[Stp52x]

Yeah I figured, I just didn't want to face reality. I guess I should just remain patient for a few years until 1440 and 2160 become the standard.

 

[escrow4]

Define "1080p" films - 1:1 .iso's? Native Blu-Ray's? Rips? Playback software? Monitor settings?

 

[Deders]

The MadVR plugin for Media player classic sorts this out...
http://www.madvr.com/

 

[postmortemIA]

it should not look any worse then 720p content on 1080p display - something does not add up

 

[Riceninja]

ya that is one of the reasons why im thinking about skipping 1440p and going to 4K, i watch a lot of 1080p movies and 4K has a perfect 1:2 upscale while 1440p won't be as "clear".

on the other hand 720p content should be fine on a 1440p. only reason for it to look bad is the lack of video bitrate.

 

[therealnickdanger]

The MadVR plugin for Media player classic sorts this out...
http://www.madvr.com/

Indeed. Not all upscalers are created equal. Assuming the monitor is properly displaying everything it is given (do images and text look sharp?), then I would guess that your playback software is just doing a poor job at upscaling. Get new playback software or try to tweak what you currently use.

Like someone else asked - are you watching 1080p content directly from the discs? 1:1 ISOs? compressed rips? That will make a difference. I know that some people claim 4GB rips of Blu-ray discs look just as good as the source, but they never actually do when played back on a large screen.

Pro tip: test picture quality using modern CG films - any Pixar Blu-ray will do. Focus will be 100% perfect and there is no film grain or lensing aberrations to distort the image.

 

[KingFatty]

There is no way your quality should have gone *down* when you switched from a 720p monitor to a 1440p monitor.

Can you describe the quality issue in more detail, or maybe take a snapshot with your cell phone to illustrate the problems?

For example, are you seeing blocks or glitches etc.? Or is it just fuzzy like someone put vaseline over your screen or ran a blur filter over it?

Can you use VLC to play the file? Maybe that will use a better codec to address whatever issue you are currently having. It's probably just a software setting that is confused about upscaling. VLC is really great at making videos look good.