Re: Question about photos and PC output on a Panasonic plasma HDTV

On Mon, 22 Aug 2005 14:36:59 -0700, Brad Houser
<bradDOThouser@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On Sun, 21 Aug 2005 11:10:09 -0700, Richard S wrote:
>
>> I am looking at the specs of a 42 in plasma Panasonic HDTV, model
>> TH-42PX500U. This TV has a native resolution of 1024 x768, and has SD
>> and PCMCIA card slots, and RGB-VGA PC input. I would appreciate an
>> comments on how well it will display photos using the SD card slot,
>> and PC images using the RGB-VGA input.
>>
>> Can anyone tell me if high resolution jpeg images (e.g.: 3008 x 1996)
>> will be displayed at high resolution on the TV?
>
>Look here for the manual: http://tinyurl.com/dgq7c
>
>The maximum image size is 2560x1920. They will be displayed at 1024x768.

Check that it handles pictures with different format to your liking
when the picture format is other than 16:9.
The pixels are rectangular, so with a 4:3 input of 2560x1920, it
should display over a 4:3 area on the panel which would use something
like 768x768 pixel.


>> I would like to show
>> really high quality photo images on an HDTV - will this Panasonic do
>> that?
>>
>
>They will look good but you may want to scale them down first to speed up
>loading time.
>
>> Also, will 1024 x768 video output from a PC display at that
>> resolution on the TV?
>>
>
>Yes.

See above. The standard output from a PC use quadratic pixels so that
1024x768 is in 4:3 format. The panel can not show the same picture as
a PC monitor with the same resolution. Either format or resolution has
to change.

>> If anyone has experience with this HDTV, or can give me some advice on
>> these questions, I would appreciate it. Any other comments on this
>> model would also be helpful.

I use an LCD-TV (1280x768 pixel) to display photos from a standard PC
using standard 1024x768 4:3 VGA connection. Works rather good.
(This particular LCD-TV is of 15:9 format but 1024x768 4:3 format
works. A panel with 1366x768 in 16:9 format should also be able to
show a 4:3 picture over 1024x768 pixel.)

In my case the camera has somewhat higher resolution so the PC
slideshow program scales it to the PC resolution. Different slideshow
programs handles edited/cropped pictures differently. This is why I
think you should test how the TV handles such pictures if input from
the memory slot reader if this is important to you.
/Jan
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