Picture Quality on MacBook? HD?

[tssmithaz]

Hi I was wondering what the picture quality on a MacBook is? Is it the same as HDTV? If so can you play HDDVD's or other downloadable HD videos on it?

 

[Eminemdrdre00]

Hi I was wondering what the picture quality on a MacBook is? Is it the same as HDTV? If so can you play HDDVD's or other downloadable HD videos on it?

Yes its HD, its basically a 720p display. 720p is 1280x720 and the Macbooks resolution is 1280x800. You cant play HDDVD disks because it only has a DVD drive, but if you can find 720p videos online they'll look great! Apple.com has tons of free HD movie trailers.

 

[Michael CM1]

If you buy a MacBook, check out the 1080p trailers at www.apple.com/trailers. Those are baaaaaaaadddddd. Like the above poster said, the res is basically a 720p screen (which, contrary to the uninformed, is HD). I think every computer screen that Apple uses is HD, so you're going to get good video quality.

 

[Smacky]

Well the screen doesnt have the potential to display true 1080p (e.g. blue ray / hd-dvd) because it doesnt have 1920x1200 resolution
So it will downscale the picture I imagine

 

[SnowLeopard2008]

It won't display 1080P on the screen, but an external, say 24" 1920x1200 will show up just fine. even the older white models with the crappy Intel GMAs