Re: Why does Standard Def look so terrible on HD monitors/TVs?

Shaun in a nutshell:

1) HD uses square pixels, SD uses non-square. when displaying
non-square to a square pixel you get picture softness.

2) the HD set must upconvert the signal internally to fill in
picture for 4:3 or 16:9 viewing. These internal scalers are
often low quality to keep costs down.

3) SD has so many less pixels to make up the image it couldn't
possibly look greatupconverted (see #2) Take a small .jpg from
a website and blow it up 80%. Even with bicubic scaling it looks bad.

By the way, many people agree that of all the HD sets available today, the Panasonic Plasma screens have the best looking SD viewing capability. Plasma tech is not all that different from CRT when it comes to the way its pixels are arranged and display.


And Bob, the last 1" dub I made for a tv station was in early 2002 if you can believe that.

I still have the gigantic 1" sony machine. I have not turned it on in years. Know anyone that would want it for free? (portland, OR)