Acceptable, not bad, okay, it will do.
I've watched lots of DVDs on my 43" hd tv and don't really notice the difference in quality if I'm not looking out for it.
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Acceptable, not bad, okay, it will do.
I've watched lots of DVDs on my 43" hd tv and don't really notice the difference in quality if I'm not looking out for it.
You must have either a real junker of a TV setup, or one that works real miracles in upconversion.
Again, though, what we are really talking about is if you will notice the difference on a display with only 5% of the viewing area of your TV. The pixel size isn't even close to being the same. I just don't see it being a problem.
Even if HD content rendering wasn't absolutely perfect on a retina display iPad, the improvement in every other graphic situation would be so amazing, it'd still be worth it for most IMHO.
You must have either a real junker of a TV setup, or one that works real miracles in upconversion.
Again, though, what we are really talking about is if you will notice the difference on a display with only 5% of the viewing area of your TV. The pixel size isn't even close to being the same. I just don't see it being a problem.
Even if HD content rendering wasn't absolutely perfect on a retina display iPad, the improvement in every other graphic situation would be so amazing, it'd still be worth it for most IMHO.
It's a Samsung one, was quite cheap at £400 - brand new. I notice the up conversion on tv shows like friends, but not so much movies. I was actually looking out for the quality when I watched Harry potter recently. I watched deathly hallows part 1 on DVD then part 2 streaming in 1080p on my Xbox 360. Quality was marginally better, but it's not an earth shattering difference.
The difference between something like eastenders on bbc one and bbc one hd is much easier to notice though.
Of course not. Every streaming service out there streams HD content that's been encoded at a very low bitrate to keep bandwidth requirements to a minimum. Watch deathly hallows on blu-ray and then compare again.
But the iPad 2 isn't the best movie playing device anyway. You can't watch 720p on an iPad without either chopping off the edges or downscaling with black bars.
You also can't watch 'Full HD' (which is just a silly name for 1080p) on an iPad 2 even with cut off edges.
I get the feeling that 1080p on an iPad 3 will look better than 720p on an iPad 2.
I also don't get your assertiveness that upscaling is always bad, which you then base on a handful of examples. Upscaling is extremely variable by manufacturer, hardware processing power, and software. I've seen upscaling DVD players than can play a high quality widescreen 480p DVD on a 720p TV that look great. Certainly much better than they did on a 4:3 480p TV.
Almost all TVs do a little bit of upscaling anyway. Most people watch 720p or 1080p TV without the black bars on the top or bottom. There are almost no, if any, TVs that have exactly 720 or 1080 vertical pixels. It's usually 768 and 1200 pixels, respectively. So if you ever watch TV, sports, or movies on an HDTV without black bars on the top or bottom you are upscaling.
You also can't watch 'Full HD' (which is just a silly name for 1080p) on an iPad 2 even with cut off edges.
I get the feeling that 1080p on an iPad 3 will look better than 720p on an iPad 2.
I also don't get your assertiveness that upscaling is always bad, which you then base on a handful of examples. Upscaling is extremely variable by manufacturer, hardware processing power, and software. I've seen upscaling DVD players than can play a high quality widescreen 480p DVD on a 720p TV that look great. Certainly much better than they did on a 4:3 480p TV.
Almost all TVs do a little bit of upscaling anyway. Most people watch 720p or 1080p TV without the black bars on the top or bottom. There are almost no, if any, TVs that have exactly 720 or 1080 vertical pixels. It's usually 768 and 1200 pixels, respectively. So if you ever watch TV, sports, or movies on an HDTV without black bars on the top or bottom you are upscaling.
There's no 1080p content in the iTunes store.
So, 720p content upscaled to 2048x1536? No thanks.
Low bitrate 1080p content streamed and upscaled to 2048x1536? What's the point.