Picture quality - monitor/t.v.

[Hakeem Shabazz]

I've been playing video clips & movies on my computer for some time, but have never tried burnering them to play in a standalone DVD player on a televsion.

Now that I'm considering it, I'm wondering about the quality of the picture while watching it on a t.v. Say I take movie X, divx encoded, and watch it on my computer...while using a small sized window, the quality is great - but if I enlarge it or go fullscreen, it turns crappy. I"m assuming this has to do with resolution quality (or pixel sizes that the movie was encoded to). (By the way, my monitor resolution is set to 1152x864). If I burn this movie to a CD-r and play it on my t.v. will the quality be as poor as it is when playing on my monitor at fullscreen?

I'm guessing not, because a t.v.'s resolution is much lower. Just trying to ste myself straight.

Also, if anyone is able to say, why exactly are some clips so poor when set to fullscreen? I have yet to download on file or movie, that keeps it's quality at fullscreen....would lowering my own resoultion while watching help?

Thanks for all replies!

[dcdeveloperx]

playing that clip on tv would still problerly look bad even though the res on a tv is lower. anyway there are many reasons why clips arnt perfect at fullscreen, lets say i wanted to make a really high res divx movie, well the higher the res, the more bitrate im gonna need to it to look good, and the more bitrate i need the bigger the file size untill its way to big. so most plp who rip dvds make it a decent size like 512*288 for widescreen and most actually are bigger than that so u can use a smaller bitrate with good quality picture at a decent res. but of coruse u can do fullscreen but most likly its going to be too big of a file size. and lowering ur res will make a clip u wanna see bigger but lowering ur res also makes u lose pixel count in the process so it wont look as clean or sharp as before.

[Hakeem Shabazz]

So, why would anyone want to download a movie, burn it to CD (as a vcd or svcd) and watch it on a tv if the quality is as bad as say, me viewing it on my monitor at fulll screen?

At least on my monitor, I can minimize the window to get a better picture....on a standalone DVD player & t.v., there's only one size you get.

[Donny661]

It usually looks better on a tv because of the lower resolution and that makes it harder to pick out artifacts in the movie. I can't stand watching a vcd fullscreen on my 17in computer moniter at 1024x768 res, but it's not that bad on my 36in tv. I've watched a vcd fullscreen before on my friend's computer and it wasn't that bad, but that was because his screen res was 800x600. Try lowering your screen resolution and see what difference it makes.