Can my Samsung LCD accurately display HD content?

[archcommus]

I'm watching some hi-def trailers on my 930B and although I didn't think my LCD was capable of displaying true HD, they do look significantly better than regular DVDs do. So am I seeing some sort of hybrid between DVD quality and HD quality?

 

[Matthias99]

Well, it doesn't have enough pixels for 1080i/p, but you can see 720p content in a 1280x720 window without a problem. It's not going to look any better than that no matter what the display.

The actual quality of the clip depends on the source material and how it was encoded. You can have 480p content that looks pretty damn good, and 1080p content that looks like crap if the bitrate is too low.

 

[archcommus]

Originally posted by: Matthias99
Well, it doesn't have enough pixels for 1080i/p, but you can see 720p content in a 1280x720 window without a problem. It's not going to look any better than that no matter what the display.

The actual quality of the clip depends on the source material and how it was encoded. You can have 480p content that looks pretty damn good, and 1080p content that looks like crap if the bitrate is too low.

So I can watch the 720p clips accurate to HD 720p?

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: archcommus

Originally posted by: Matthias99
Well, it doesn't have enough pixels for 1080i/p, but you can see 720p content in a 1280x720 window without a problem. It's not going to look any better than that no matter what the display.

The actual quality of the clip depends on the source material and how it was encoded. You can have 480p content that looks pretty damn good, and 1080p content that looks like crap if the bitrate is too low.

So I can watch the 720p clips accurate to HD 720p?

You'll need to make it fullscreen (otherwise you won't have 1280 pixels horizontally due to window borders, etc.), but yes, you can watch 1280x720 clips 1:1 (albeit letterboxed) on a 1280x1024 LCD screen.

 

[archcommus]

Originally posted by: Matthias99

Originally posted by: archcommus

Originally posted by: Matthias99
Well, it doesn't have enough pixels for 1080i/p, but you can see 720p content in a 1280x720 window without a problem. It's not going to look any better than that no matter what the display.

The actual quality of the clip depends on the source material and how it was encoded. You can have 480p content that looks pretty damn good, and 1080p content that looks like crap if the bitrate is too low.

So I can watch the 720p clips accurate to HD 720p?

You'll need to make it fullscreen (otherwise you won't have 1280 pixels horizontally due to window borders, etc.), but yes, you can watch 1280x720 clips 1:1 (albeit letterboxed) on a 1280x1024 LCD screen.

Okay, thanks. I don't think that's too shabby.

So does that mean the only thing keeping me from displaying 1080p is a measly 56 rows of pixels?

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: archcommus

Originally posted by: Matthias99

Originally posted by: archcommus

Originally posted by: Matthias99
Well, it doesn't have enough pixels for 1080i/p, but you can see 720p content in a 1280x720 window without a problem. It's not going to look any better than that no matter what the display.

The actual quality of the clip depends on the source material and how it was encoded. You can have 480p content that looks pretty damn good, and 1080p content that looks like crap if the bitrate is too low.

So I can watch the 720p clips accurate to HD 720p?

You'll need to make it fullscreen (otherwise you won't have 1280 pixels horizontally due to window borders, etc.), but yes, you can watch 1280x720 clips 1:1 (albeit letterboxed) on a 1280x1024 LCD screen.

Okay, thanks. I don't think that's too shabby.

So does that mean the only thing keeping me from displaying 1080p is a measly 56 rows of pixels?

1080p = 1920x1080. Your current screen only has 1280x1024 pixels. Yes, you're only 56 short vertically, but you're also 640 pixels short horizontally.

You can display 1080p, but it's going to be scaled down to, at most, 1280x720 (unless you pan-and-scan it in some fashion). Of course, this is no different than watching 1080i/p content on a 720p HDTV.

 

[rbV5]

So does that mean the only thing keeping me from displaying 1080p is a measly 56 rows of pixels?

1080p is 1920x1080, but you can display it scaled.

 

[archcommus]

Originally posted by: Matthias99

Originally posted by: archcommus

Originally posted by: Matthias99

Originally posted by: archcommus

Originally posted by: Matthias99
Well, it doesn't have enough pixels for 1080i/p, but you can see 720p content in a 1280x720 window without a problem. It's not going to look any better than that no matter what the display.

The actual quality of the clip depends on the source material and how it was encoded. You can have 480p content that looks pretty damn good, and 1080p content that looks like crap if the bitrate is too low.

So I can watch the 720p clips accurate to HD 720p?

You'll need to make it fullscreen (otherwise you won't have 1280 pixels horizontally due to window borders, etc.), but yes, you can watch 1280x720 clips 1:1 (albeit letterboxed) on a 1280x1024 LCD screen.

Okay, thanks. I don't think that's too shabby.

So does that mean the only thing keeping me from displaying 1080p is a measly 56 rows of pixels?

1080p = 1920x1080. Your current screen only has 1280x1024 pixels. Yes, you're only 56 short vertically, but you're also 640 pixels short horizontally.

You can display 1080p, but it's going to be scaled down to, at most, 1280x720 (unless you pan-and-scan it in some fashion). Of course, this is no different than watching 1080i/p content on a 720p HDTV.

Ahh okay. Well I'm happy with being able to display 720p content properly.

Thanks!