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KRegnard · 2010-07-02, 04:45

Hi,
I played a couple of 1080p videos through the ps3 on my television. The videos seem to already be stretched out very much on the computer, but is much clearer on the television. Why's that so?

fertygo · 2010-07-02, 08:12

hmm, what resolution you using on your monitor ?

KRegnard · 2010-07-02, 08:43

It's 1280x800.

PositronCannon · 2010-07-02, 09:16

Perhaps whatever software or renderer you're using isn't resizing the video properly, though if your TV is 1080p itself it's only natural that it'd look better. Still, the difference shouldn't be huge, and I'm not sure what you mean by "stretched out" in this case.

synaesthetic · 2010-07-02, 10:07

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Originally Posted by KRegnard

It's 1280x800.

If it looks stretched out, it's because your video card is fitting the 1920x1080 (16:9) image on your 1280x800 (16:10) monitor.

Modify your video card settings to "keep aspect ratio" and make sure MPC-HC says the same thing. Don't let it resize to fit your display, else everyone will look stretched vertically.

And if your HDTV is 1080p, of course it's going to look better, because it's displaying at native resolution and isn't interpolating.

mukansa monkey · 2010-07-04, 10:01

Just to make that extra-clear... 1080p means 1920 pixels wide by 1080 tall. To see it at full quality you need a monitor that's got that many physical pixels. Your TV probably qualifies (some HDTVs aren't actually that big); your computer monitor does not. The issue of stretching was already covered... set your computer video player to keep existing resolution.

Finally, that interpolating thing: if you playback video at double or half resolution, each pixel onscreen lines up neatly to one or two pixels of video information. If you play a video that's 1920 pixels of data on a screen that's 1280 pixels wide, each data pixel has to get interpolated into 2/3 of an onscreen pixel (or 1/3 each of two pixels). That tends to cause fuzziness issues. It's even worse when you fullscreen a small video, and each data pixel ends up displayed on 2.24 data pixels or something. I almost never use fullscreen for this reason, would rather have a good image that's a bit smaller.

synaesthetic · 2010-07-04, 14:57

Interpolation is not nearly as yucky as it used to be. Funny enough, almost all standard HDTVs will interpolate by default, as the LCD panels in std-HD have a resolution of 1366x768. And 720p is 1280x720.

I can't honestly tell the difference in quality when I fullscreen my 720p fansubs on my laptop, either.

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KRegnard Member Join Date: Jun 2010	Video looks better fullscreen on TV than on the computer screen. Hi, I played a couple of 1080p videos through the ps3 on my television. The videos seem to already be stretched out very much on the computer, but is much clearer on the television. Why's that so? Last edited by KRegnard; 2010-07-02 at 06:43.

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mukansa monkey Pink bug make Amu angry! Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Somewhere between Omaha and Minsk	Just to make that extra-clear... 1080p means 1920 pixels wide by 1080 tall. To see it at full quality you need a monitor that's got that many physical pixels. Your TV probably qualifies (some HDTVs aren't actually that big); your computer monitor does not. The issue of stretching was already covered... set your computer video player to keep existing resolution. Finally, that interpolating thing: if you playback video at double or half resolution, each pixel onscreen lines up neatly to one or two pixels of video information. If you play a video that's 1920 pixels of data on a screen that's 1280 pixels wide, each data pixel has to get interpolated into 2/3 of an onscreen pixel (or 1/3 each of two pixels). That tends to cause fuzziness issues. It's even worse when you fullscreen a small video, and each data pixel ends up displayed on 2.24 data pixels or something. I almost never use fullscreen for this reason, would rather have a good image that's a bit smaller. __________________ Folding for the honor of the platform grey_moon: "I guess liking tsundere girls is similar to liking durian, once you get past the horrible smell you can taste the sweet flesh... That sounded a bit rude didn't it "

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synaesthetic blinded by blood Author Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Oakland, CA Age: 39	Interpolation is not nearly as yucky as it used to be. Funny enough, almost all standard HDTVs will interpolate by default, as the LCD panels in std-HD have a resolution of 1366x768. And 720p is 1280x720. I can't honestly tell the difference in quality when I fullscreen my 720p fansubs on my laptop, either. __________________ Indie science fiction author and all-around weirdo: Check out my original fiction here! Read an excerpt from my sci-fi novel Binary System!

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KRegnard Member Join Date: Jun 2010	It's 1280x800.

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PositronCannon Senior Member Fansubber Join Date: May 2010 Location: Spain Age: 33	Perhaps whatever software or renderer you're using isn't resizing the video properly, though if your TV is 1080p itself it's only natural that it'd look better. Still, the difference shouldn't be huge, and I'm not sure what you mean by "stretched out" in this case.