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Xtras:
I have found that if I have a DVD of a movie, when I play it on my tv with a dvd player, it takes up the full screen and still looks great. But then I put it on my PC and it only takes up a small space on my 22" monitor. If I fullscreen it, then it starts to lose clarity and you see the pixelation. Anybody know why this happens. It happens for my anime encodes also. When I burn it to a DVD and play it on my TV (which is much bigger than my monitor), it comes out full size an in great quailty as opposed to me playing the file on my computer.

Drew:
That's because your average run-of-the-mill TV has a very low resolution compared to your computer monitor. It appears to look worse because the computer has to stretch the pixels to fit your screen.

Edit: Here's an image:



Compare the NTSC (720x480) to the average size of computer monitors (1280x1024 to 1920x1200).

Xtras:
Wait, so then, if I change the resolution on my computer monitor to say 800x600 , then I could watch anime at full screen without the fuzziness? If that is the case, why are high resolution TV's so highly praised, if they just make some of the older dvd's and non-HD channels look bad?

bloody000:
You are only two feet or so away from your computer monitor. that's why.

sanguis:

--- Quote from: xtras on August 20, 2009, 03:05:37 AM ---Wait, so then, if I change the resolution on my computer monitor to say 800x600 , then I could watch anime at full screen without the fuzziness?
--- End quote ---

Correct, but why would you go to that effort and not just watch it on the TV?


--- Quote from: xtras on August 20, 2009, 03:05:37 AM ---If that is the case, why are high resolution TV's so highly praised, if they just make some of the older dvd's and non-HD channels look bad?

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because you are supposed to watch HD content on them. I'm sure there is a setting on the TV somewhere that will let you watch non-HD content at the original resolution, but that leaves big black boxes all around the image.

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