DVD Viewing Quality

brycematheson712

brycematheson712

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Why is it that when you view a video with 640x480 resolution in full-screen mode on your computer it looks pretty terrible (on a 1440x900 laptop), but then when I burn the exact file to a DVD and play it on a 42" Widescreen television, the video looks fine (or at least not not nearly as bad as it did on the computer)? Just wondering. It's always confused me, because the TV has a much larger viewing area, but looks better? Eh?

Also, I would like to create DVDs with a nice menu. Is there a special program most people use? I would also like to be able to make a 'scene selection' mode. How would that be done?

Thanks.
 
TVs and DVD players have built-in hardware scalers that upscale DVD video to a higher res while running it through sharpen filters and noise filters. This makes them look a lot better.
 
gamerman4 said:
TVs and DVD players have built-in hardware scalers that upscale DVD video to a higher res while running it through sharpen filters and noise filters. This makes them look a lot better.
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Kinda like those 1080P or i upconversion DVD players for HDTV's?
 
ellanky said:
Kinda like those 1080P or i upconversion DVD players for HDTV's?
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yep

good example, if you have an xbox360, try playing a DVD in a normal dvd player and then play it in the Xbox 360 (must have HDTV for this. The Xbox360 has a very high quality scaler that will make standard def DVDs look great.
 
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