Question about 1080P WMV HD Content...

[Crescent13]

The requirements from the microsoft website...


# Windows XP (I have)
# Windows Media Player 10 (I have)
# DirectX 9.0 (I have)
# 3.0 GHz processor or equivalent (I have a 2.8GHz Opty 144 )
# 512 MB of RAM (2 gigs of DDR-500 Baby )
# 128 MB video card (7800GT FTW)
# 1920 x 1440 screen resolution (WTF!)
# 24-bit 96 kHz multichannel sound card (Audigy 2 ZS)
# 5.1 surround sound speaker system (Logitech X-530)

Is this resolution really necessary? I have a NEC 20WMGX2 coming soon and it supports up to 1680x1050 (or something). Will my monitor not be enough?

 

[framerateuk]

1080p native resolution is 1920x1080. If your monitor is not large enough to support this, then it will be scaled down to fit your screen.

 

[Crescent13]

Ah. That makes sense. Thanks!

 

[SonicIce]

Originally posted by: framerateuk
1080p native resolution is 1920x1080. If your monitor is not large enough to support this, then it will be scaled down to fit your screen.

true. note of the so-called 1080p clips there are actually 1440x1080 (4:3). i dont know why. technically it has 1080 resolution but thats cheap .

so you almost have the full resolution, Crescent. just missing 30 vertical lines.

 

[xtknight]

Don't worry. Downscaling is of much better quality than upscaling is. Downscaling is like antialiasing (it is supersampling in a way).

 

[Zebo]

Originally posted by: xtknight
Don't worry. Downscaling is of much better quality than upscaling is. Downscaling is like antialiasing (it is supersampling in a way).

Exactly it's cystal clear as it would be at native. A tad smaller? yeah... but it's not $1000 either on the sub-par 24"s that are out there IMO!!

 

[Crescent13]

Originally posted by: Zebo

Originally posted by: xtknight
Don't worry. Downscaling is of much better quality than upscaling is. Downscaling is like antialiasing (it is supersampling in a way).

Exactly it's cystal clear as it would be at native. A tad smaller? yeah... but it's not $1000 either on the sub-par 24"s that are out there IMO!!

Allright. Thanks! I was worried for a minute there that maybe I should have gotten a 24" monitor .

 

[rbV5]

Originally posted by: SonicIce

Originally posted by: framerateuk
1080p native resolution is 1920x1080. If your monitor is not large enough to support this, then it will be scaled down to fit your screen.

true. note of the so-called 1080p clips there are actually 1440x1080 (4:3). i dont know why. technically it has 1080 resolution but thats cheap .

so you almost have the full resolution, Crescent. just missing 30 vertical lines.

Not really, video resolution is determined by the vertical resolution, not horizontal resolution. 1080p isn't an ATSC HD format anyway.