Playing Blu-Ray Movies on 2560x1600 Resolution Monitors

[GamingDaemon]

Hello,

I have/had another thread on this topic, but it was in the monitors section. I am thinking I am attacking this all wrong.

My question/concern is what will happen when I play a blu-ray movie, either from my blu-ray optical drive of my PC, or from my hard-drive, on a 30 inch monitor with a resolution of 2560x1600?

So:

1) Will it be a small box that is 1920x1080, with black bars on all four sides?

2) Will my video card, a Diamond ATI 5870, try to scale it up to 2560x1600?

3) And if it does scale it up, like to 2560x1440, will it be fuzzy and blocky? Or will it be crips and sharp?

Thanks in advance!

 

[Soccerman06]

1 it will be bordered with the player around it or bars, depends on software and your settings.

2 the gpu doesn't matter, it all depends on what software you use, when you click full screen or native resolution. Most players automatically do 1920x1080 and scale to fit when you click it.

3 you probably won't notice the difference.

 

[GamingDaemon]

1 it will be bordered with the player around it or bars, depends on software and your settings.

2 the gpu doesn't matter, it all depends on what software you use, when you click full screen or native resolution. Most players automatically do 1920x1080 and scale to fit when you click it.

3 you probably won't notice the difference.

If I am using ArcSoft's TotalTheatre media player, will that work?

http://www.arcsoft.com/en-us/software_title.asp?ProductCode=TMT3P&dyContent=details#submenu

 

[lopri]

1) Will it be a small box that is 1920x1080, with black bars on all four sides?

2) Will my video card, a Diamond ATI 5870, try to scale it up to 2560x1600?

3) And if it does scale it up, like to 2560x1440, will it be fuzzy and blocky? Or will it be crips and sharp?

1) No, you will have a letterbox (black bars, top and bottom) depending on the film's native resolution. You can of course stretch it or watch in window'ed mode. Simply download an 1080p movie trailer and try playing it the way you want - full screen, stretched, native, or whatever options available. Blu-Ray material works the same way.

2) Yes. All video cards since RV670 and G70 has at least one dual-link DVI, iirc.

3) That depends on source material, but generally they look pretty good unless you have a superhuman vision.

TMT3 is great. I used to use PowerDVD but switched to TMT3 because TMT3 had better integration with Windows Media Center at the time. Both are equally good today.

 

[lopri]

Here is an example of what you're going to see. Took shots off a scene from Inglourious Basterds.

Original


Full-screen

 

[GamingDaemon]

Here is an example of what you're going to see. Took shots off a scene from Inglourious Basterds.

Original


Full-screen

Awesome, thank you. You have provided what no store in my area within 50 miles could provide: a side-by-side comparison.

That was on a HP ZR30w?

 

[lopri]

Hp lp3065

 

[Wag]

How about a Dell u2711? I have one of those and I can tell you it's one of the best displays on the market, any size, for any amount of money. It's a 27" 2560x1440 16:9 display, so you won't have black bars with movies.

 

[BFG10K]

If you set your player to full screen, in most cases you’ll get fixed aspect scaling to 2560x1600. If you want to see what this looks like, set a game to 1080p and then have your display/GPU use fixed aspect scaling. You’ll see black bars at the top and bottom.

Bluray looks okay scaled up but regular DVDs look horrific, even at long distances. That’s one of the main reasons why I upgraded to Bluray on my PC.

 

[GamingDaemon]

Yeah, I will only be playing BluRay on this monitor. I don't think I watch regular DVDs anymore.

So, how do I set GPU to use fixed aspect scaling? I have an ATI Diamond 5870.