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Retina display question

Thread starter mactumors
Start date Oct 31, 2013
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mactumors

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Oct 31, 2013

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When I open a 1080p video in Quicktime and select "actual size", why is Apple doubling the pixels still? WHYYYYYY?

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PDFierro

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Oct 31, 2013

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mactumors said:
When I open a 1080p video in Quicktime and select "actual size", why is Apple doubling the pixels still? WHYYYYYY?

They aren't. 1080p videos will run as 1080p.

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mactumors

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Oct 31, 2013

#3

PDFierro said:
They aren't. 1080p videos will run as 1080p.

Nope. 1080p wouldn't fill the screen. Quicktime plays videos as if you don't have a retina display.

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