How to play pics adjusted on a PC to a TV ?

[DBenz]

How should one play quality tweaked in photoshop digital stills to a modern flat screen TV ?

I have spent two solid days tweaking in Photoshop then making my digital SLR pics into 1920 x 1080 pixels size, so that they will fit perfectly a HD TV which it is said is that resolution, and as HD Ready is proportional to this at 1280 x 720, when played to those TVs, they should easily shrink the image without any trouble, I would assume.
Burned them as jpg files (qlty 9) to a CD. They look great on my PC calibrated monitor.

Then comes the reality, visit friends, place CD in dvd player connected to a new Sony Bravia KDL26EX302 HD ready TV via scart lead. DVD players will play stills to TV.

BUT….Picture does not fill the screen.

Try Auto and Zoom settings, all other settings are for 4:3 or whatever, though I try them anyway.
Pic is only 67% height with Auto and 87% height with Zoom.

Screen is 324mm high

Zoom sees top margin 25mm, bott 16mm, that’s a pic only filling 87% of screen height
Auto sees top margin 57mm, bott 51mm that’s even worse at 67%

They are not even central, but offset a bit. This is nuts.

Play a Kodak photo CD and they also don’t fill the screen.

Why is the TV taking an image that should proportionally fit and has enough pixels to do so, and shrinking it ? and not even placing it equidistant from the screen edges ?

What is the secret to playing digital stills on a flatscreen TV ?

I now wonder, a standard dvd player has got stills to screen capa
bility, but 1080high is bluray quality, so no way can it transmit that. Its outputting at video resolution perhaps. 576px height. Even then, the darn TV should fit that to the Screen !

D-SLR Photographers are into quality, so how does one get digital pics onto screen from CD, having cropped, tweaked etc the pics in Photoshop beforehand ?

DBenz

[jagabo]

Then comes the reality, visit friends, place CD in dvd player connected to a new Sony Bravia KDL26EX302 HD ready TV via scart lead. DVD players will play stills to TV.

BUT….Picture does not fill the screen.

I suspect DVD player is set to output a 4:3 image so your widescreen photos are being letterboxed in a 4:3 frame in the player then the TV is pillarboxing the 4:3 image to fill a 6:9 frame. Set the DVD player to output 16:9 and your images may fill the screen. Photo playback on DVD Players is unpredictable though.

And SCART is only standard definition, of course. Don't expect nice sharp images.

[aedipuss]

a standard dvd player only outputs standard def. 720x480 ntsc or 720x576 pal. you need a different delivery method to the tv. either a usb stick with jpgs or a blu-ray player.

[olyteddy]

Or try the 'Zoom' options on the TV.