On Thu, 2005-05-05 at 18:10, Michael Haan wrote: > On 5/5/05, James Stembridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 5/5/05, Doug Larrick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > But are your pixels square? 720x480 is pretty close to square pixels on > > > a 16:9 set. > > > > I wouldn't think so, I'm using 720x576 too. I'll have a closer look tonight. > > > > James. > > _______________________________________________ > > mythtv-users mailing list > > mythtv-users@mythtv.org > > http://mythtv.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mythtv-users > > > > What do you mean by saying your pixels are square? The text is blocky > in the UI? I'm having issues which I think may be similar to others > mentioned in this thread, but not that one. My issues is that since I > got my widescreen hd and set my res to 1280x720, the letters in the UI > are mostly unreadable (I have pretty good vision and can make them out > if i take the time, my GF has no clue what they say). I tried setting > the UI to use "big" font and moved that up to 40, but that's really > not doing much. Is this issue related to yours, or should I address > this some other way?
No, that doesn't sound like the same issue at all. What is your DisplaySize setting in your X config? Setting it to 400x225 seems to produce readable size text; setting it to the actual physical size of the display ensures you will be needing an eye test :) By "square pixels", what is meant is that a pixel on a TV screen has different height and width, unlike a computer monitor. If you draw a 100x100 box on a 4:3 PAL TV at its native resolution (720x576), the box will appear 6.7% wider than its height. At 16:9 the box will be 42.2% wider than its height. Anything that assumes that the X and Y resolution is the same will not display correctly on a standard definition TV, whether you are looking at PAL or NTSC, 4:3 or 16:9. For 4:3 the error is marginal, but it's still wrong. For 16:9 (which is still using a resolution of 720x576 but stretching it to fit the wide screen) objects will appear in completely the wrong shape - text will be super-fat, circles will be eliptical, etc. This is my problem - while the signal from the tuner displays correctly, all on-screen text and graphics are wrong. Something else I've only just thought of - when watching a 4:3 broadcast, the OSD (e.g. the channel browser) displays in 4:3 mode. This is the only time the text looks "normal" (although I suppose, for the reasons above, it is still wrong by 6%. I'm a perfectionist like that.) Richard
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