Calling all HTPC owners

[Nick Le Lievre]

What resolution and dpi settings do you use when displaying your HTPC image
on the TV. I have a 50" 1080i Plasma and have it set to 1280*720 @ medium
125 dpi settings so I can read text without eye strain. What do you use and
why?

[Jaimie Vandenbergh]

1360x768, normal font settings - gives the best balance of quality vs
readability on my 36" 1080p screen.

Cheers - Jaimie
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[Nick Le Lievre]

>"Jaimie Vandenbergh" wrote in message
>news:110c48d1lf0fgv985...@4ax.com...

>
>1360x768, normal font settings - gives the best balance of quality vs
>readability on my 36" 1080p screen.

You see I find normal font settings too small for certain websites eg the
old google groups website although the new version is better. I am sitting
about 6-7 foot away from my 50" Plasma and although I was averse from
changing the text size at first I have got used to it now and everything is
a lot easier to read.

[Jaimie Vandenbergh]

We ave very different use methods - I tend to do my controlling either
by VNC or by the corded mouse, either way I'm up close to the screen.

So the resolution choice is primarily to make the (unconfigurable!
Gah!) tuner software's on-screen display for what's on now and next
readable from the sofa.

Cheers - Jaimie
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[dennis@home]

"Nick Le Lievre" <nickle...@jerseymail.co.uk.invalid> wrote in message
news:k24up4$du3$1...@news.albasani.net...

You should always set plasma and LCD screens to their native resolution
(1920x1080 for full HD).
Then scale the display to give readable text.

The next best is to set the display to a quarter resolution (960x540).

If you don't do that you can get allsorts of mapping problems as the screen
can't display all the pixels the same.
Some pixels will map to two screen pixels and some to only one.

[Jaimie Vandenbergh]

Most screens and/or video cards these days don't mind that, and do
pretty interpolation. As they have to for eg SD signals and 720 on
1080 and vice versa. It's not really a problem unless you have really
shonky kit.

Cheers - Jaimie
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[Rob Morley]

On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 14:26:55 +0100

"Nick Le Lievre" <nickle...@jerseymail.co.uk.invalid> wrote:

> >"Jaimie Vandenbergh" wrote in message
> >news:110c48d1lf0fgv985...@4ax.com...
> >
> >1360x768, normal font settings - gives the best balance of quality vs
> >readability on my 36" 1080p screen.
>
> You see I find normal font settings too small for certain websites

Ctrl-+ until it's big enough?

[dennis@home]

"Jaimie Vandenbergh" <jai...@sometimes.sessile.org> wrote in message
news:57lc4896hc0hhf4u1...@4ax.com...

That is partly true for video but not for text.

[Chris Whelan]

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/nosquint/

Chris

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[Jaimie Vandenbergh]

How would the devices tell the difference?

I'd be very surprised if any screen made since about 2002 didn't have
reasonable scaling circuitry/software.

Cheers - Jaimie
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[Rob Morley]

On Tue, 04 Sep 2012 22:00:51 +0100
Jaimie Vandenbergh <jai...@sometimes.sessile.org> wrote:

> On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 21:21:19 +0100, "dennis@home"
> <den...@killspam.kicks-ass.net> wrote:
> >"Jaimie Vandenbergh" <jai...@sometimes.sessile.org> wrote in message
> >news:57lc4896hc0hhf4u1...@4ax.com...
> >> On Tue, 4 Sep 2012 20:18:35 +0100, "dennis@home"
> >> <den...@killspam.kicks-ass.net> wrote:
> >>
> >>>You should always set plasma and LCD screens to their native
> >>>resolution (1920x1080 for full HD).
> >>>Then scale the display to give readable text.
> >>>
> >>>The next best is to set the display to a quarter resolution
> >>>(960x540).
> >>>
> >>>If you don't do that you can get allsorts of mapping problems as
> >>>the screen
> >>>can't display all the pixels the same.
> >>>Some pixels will map to two screen pixels and some to only one.
> >>
> >> Most screens and/or video cards these days don't mind that, and do
> >> pretty interpolation. As they have to for eg SD signals and 720 on
> >> 1080 and vice versa. It's not really a problem unless you have
> >> really shonky kit.
> >
> >That is partly true for video but not for text.
>
> How would the devices tell the difference?
>

They don't need to - obviously they use the same algorithm for video and
text, video looks OK but text not so much.

[Johann Klammer]

Jaimie Vandenbergh wrote:
>
> How would the devices tell the difference?

They do not.

Video images tend to be 'smooth', while text and line art will tend to
have sharp edges. Blurring and interpolation is more visible there.
(Also, certain compression artifacts).

[Jim Price]

I used to use that, but recent versions of Firefox already have zoom
buttons. They just aren't made visible by default. Right click on a
panel and choose Customise... to find them.

I run my MythTV box at 1280x720 as my TV won't do 1080p, and tweak the
subpixel smoothing so the text looks right. The native resolution of the
TV seems to be a slightly bizarre (for a 16:9 monitor) 1280x960.

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[Mike Tomlinson]

En el art�culo <20120904211928.0c8757bb@hyperion>, Rob Morley
<nos...@ntlworld.com> escribi�:

>Ctrl-+ until it's big enough?

oo-er missus.

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