EDTV Televisions

[BakedWafer]

I want to hook up a EDTV Television (Flat Plasma) to a Computer, what is the maximum resolution I can get and will it look decent?

Regards,
Jason

 

[darkswordsman17]

Well, you'd have to find out what the resolution of the TV is. Most EDTVs can only do something like 852x480 or so.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: darkswordsman17
Well, you'd have to find out what the resolution of the TV is. Most EDTVs can only do something like 852x480 or so.

Correct. EDTVs are limited to 480 lines of vertical resolution.

- M4H

 

[BakedWafer]

So, I would have to get an HDTV in order to get higher resoultions?

Regards,
Jason

 

[Dug]

Originally posted by: BakedWafer
So, I would have to get an HDTV in order to get higher resoultions?

Regards,
Jason

Yes, but that doesn't mean you can't send a higher resolution to the plasma. The plasma will just down convert it to it's native resolution. If you are watching movies hdtv, or playing games you won't notice anything. Text on a desktop may look blury depending on the display you have.

 

[MercenaryForHire]

Originally posted by: Dug

Originally posted by: BakedWafer
So, I would have to get an HDTV in order to get higher resoultions?

Regards,
Jason

Yes, but that doesn't mean you can't send a higher resolution to the plasma. The plasma will just down convert it to it's native resolution. If you are watching movies hdtv, or playing games you won't notice anything. Text on a desktop may look blury depending on the display you have.

What's the point of sending a higher resolution than the display can handle? A downscaled image will look worse than the native-res, unless it's got some really excellent filtering hardware.

- M4H

 

[Dug]

Yes a downscaled image may look worse than the native-res, but then again, it may look better.
Take an HDTV image and downscale it, it will still look great. You don't need great filtering hardware to do this.

Try running some of the 1080 HD feeds from Microsoft on a monitor that is set to 1024x768. Try all different resolutions. You won't be able to tell much difference or any at all depending on how close you are to it.

Same with the plasma's, projectors, etc. Some people like myself actually will take a feed, upscale and then let the display downscale it again.