Barry Green |
January 15th, 2006 06:17 AM |
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Originally Posted by James Darren
So Barry, you're saying even though the CRT models claim to be 1080i that they can not actually display this resolution?
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Correct. It is capable of ingesting a 1080i signal and displaying its picture, but not of resolving 1080 lines of detail. Not by a long shot.
Just like most plasmas that they advertise as 1080i capable... the native resolution is 768 lines. The 1080 will get scaled to fit the resolution of the display.
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If this is the case, what would you expect the actual displayed resolution to be?
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Didn't test for that. I should rasterize a resolution chart and put that on the memorystick and then display it; should be a good way to find out how many TVL it's capable of resolving. Still won't answer the question in terms of pixels though, but once I know where the blur takes over, I could probably then go in and count the pixels and figure out a resolvable number.
But don't get me wrong -- CRTs may not be able to resolve all the detail, but they look fantastic. I think CRTs deliver the best-looking high-def picture. CRTs also tend to blur out the noise and artifacting, so if you're talking about a monitor to watch on in your home, a CRT has a lot to offer (plus they're cheap... but huge and heavy and limited in screen size). If you want to see what's really happening to your footage, you can't beat an LCD. But LCDs do your footage no favors.
If you're looking for a monitor for your edit suite that only you will see, an LCD could be a good choice for that, a CRT would be not the best choice for that. If you're looking for a "client monitor" where you want the client to see the footage and feel all warm and fuzzy, well, a CRT might do you some favors that an LCD or plasma wouldn't (because a CRT will mask the fine-detail noise and artifacts, whereas a native-pixel LCD will show them all).
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