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Howcome, for example, when I play a DVD on a computer, it won't look as good as it does on TV? Even when I encode video files I have, it looks better on a high bitrate ?VCD than the original file does.
I'm not having a problem, I'm just wondering.
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- Jan 2003
- Ontario, Canada
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I see the same thing but I also noticed that a movie played on my new 19 inch LCD monitor looks much improved over what it did on my 19 inch CRT monitor.
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DVD's use interlaced video. TV's are interlaced. Computer monitors are NOT interlaced.
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- Sep 2001
- Northern Ireland
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It's all to do with the display resolution of the screen. Your computer monitor is much higher res as you need to be able to see small text clearly. I never go above 800x600 on a PC screen as I find it hard to view high res pictures. A standard TV is about 400x625(575 visable).
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I agree with energy80s, it all has to do with the resolution. The resolution of your monitor is hugh higher than your TV. This explains why you can watch a VCD full screen on your computer and it look like crap, but on your tv it doesn't look too bad.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the computer screen also has a bigger color depth than the TV crt. In combination with the higher res, every flaw in the video will be much more prominent on the computer than on TV. The TV will act as a filter.
/Mats
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