[mythtv-users] OT: HDTV TV's

Marco Nelissen marcone at xs4all.nl
Fri May 12 10:24:00 EDT 2006


>On 05/11/2006 01:46 PM, Steven Adeff wrote:
>
>>On 5/11/06, Michael T. Dean <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>>  
>>
>>>Basically, I'm saying there's more information available in the input
>>>signal than can be represented by an output device using a 1:1 pixel
>>>mapping.
>>>    
>>>
>>Um, what?! There is no way possible to have more information than the
>>1:1 pixel mapping. It's not there, sure, you could *guess* at what's
>>there, but that doesn't mean the information is actually there, its
>>just rounding math.
>>  
>>
>
>I'm not saying there's more information than the pixels specify.  I'm 
>saying it's impossible to fully reproduce that information specified by 
>the pixels with only the number of pixels in the input signal.  If you 
>still don't see the difference, keep re-reading that sentence...
>
>Basically, all the posts in this thread that argue my point seem to 
>assume that for a fixed-pixel device, the display resolution measured as 
>a number of discrete pixels is identical to the display resolution 
>measured as the number of resolvable lines.

I think you need to explain your definition of "resolve". You originally
stated that even a 1920x1080 display cannot "fully resolve" a 1920x1080
picture, and that is simply wrong.


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