[mythtv-users] SD material on HD display - Scaling Issues

[Joan Vallés]

according to this site http://pixelmapping.wikispaces.com/LG+TVs your model
only suppors 1:1 on HDMI at 60Hz VGA is not known but usually it should be
fine

On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 3:02 AM, Yan-Fa Li <yanfali at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 5:37 PM, Bill Williamson <bill at bbqninja.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 7:53 AM, James Buckley <
> xanium4332 at googlemail.com>
> > wrote:
> > >
> > > Yes I can drive it by VGA. Seems odd that VGA would be better than DVI
> > though, (as DVI is like the digital form of VGA). Does your TV do any
> > scaling on the picture?
> > >
>
> It's not that odd if your TV is 720p.  HDMI only has to support 480p,
> 720p and 1080p progressive formats.  VGA ports are usually capable of
> pushing native panel resolutions.  My sony TV supports 1360x768 native
> via VGA.  HDMI 720p signals are scaled up to native by the TV itself.
> That's why I prefer to feed it 1080i as scaling usually looks better
> than up since you're discarding information rather than interpolating.
>  I use mythtv via VGA and it looks pretty darn good.
>
> just my 0.02USD.
>
> Yan
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Joan
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