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DVD Playback on 27" iMac Atrocious! Help!
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<blockquote data-quote="cwa107" data-source="post: 1103209" data-attributes="member: 24098"><p>Of course it wouldn't, because an SDTV is low resolution (480P) or 640x480. Your iMac runs at an astonishing 2560x1440 or 1440P. </p><p></p><p>I'm not sure that you do understand.... let me try to put it in a simpler way.</p><p></p><p>Take a scan of a 3x5 picture. Display it on a computer. It will be tiny. Now, take that picture and zoom it up to fit the screen. What happens? The picture becomes blocky and pixelated. Why? Because you're occupying many more pixels, but you can't add data to the image.</p><p></p><p>That's exactly what's happening here. </p><p></p><p>If you resize the image down to roughly 640x480 in DVD player, I guarantee you that it will look great.</p><p></p><p>So, your options are to knock your screen resolution down to 1024x768 (it will look better, but not perfect), or you can just watch them in a tiny window. Again, it's not your Mac, but your high resolution display.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>It's not the program, it's the screen resolution. It's that simple.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cwa107, post: 1103209, member: 24098"] Of course it wouldn't, because an SDTV is low resolution (480P) or 640x480. Your iMac runs at an astonishing 2560x1440 or 1440P. I'm not sure that you do understand.... let me try to put it in a simpler way. Take a scan of a 3x5 picture. Display it on a computer. It will be tiny. Now, take that picture and zoom it up to fit the screen. What happens? The picture becomes blocky and pixelated. Why? Because you're occupying many more pixels, but you can't add data to the image. That's exactly what's happening here. If you resize the image down to roughly 640x480 in DVD player, I guarantee you that it will look great. So, your options are to knock your screen resolution down to 1024x768 (it will look better, but not perfect), or you can just watch them in a tiny window. Again, it's not your Mac, but your high resolution display. It's not the program, it's the screen resolution. It's that simple. [/QUOTE]
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