Originally posted by sammorris:

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Well, suffice to say, I get a lot of HD video files, and round there you'd be amazed how quality-sceptical some people are. A lot of people scoff at the concept of even 720p stuff. A troll is someone who comes to forums to only be a nuisance and post garbage. Posting that there was almost no difference between SD and HD anywhere like that would make them think you were trolling.
I don't see how a TN panel makes a difference. My 20" is TN and I can still tell the difference clearly. I would have thought a higher quality panel type would make it easier to see differences, not more difficult. My 30" is S-IPS, and if I stand further away to compensate, it's still ridiculously obvious.
What I meant about 36" was that at normal viewing difference, there is very little discernible difference between 720p and 1080p. For 480p to not be noticeable, you'd have to be a long long way back to not spot the difference - as far back as you would sit from a 50" TV with maybe a 24" or 26".
Congrats on the aDA Omega :)

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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True, but saying there's scarcely any difference between 480p and 1080p nullifies the whole concept of HD video...

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Originally posted by theonejrs:

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While I agree that a 1080p movie converted to DVD looks bad on many computers, with HD graphics, it looks very close to the original 1080p

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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Modes? You'll have to explain that one to me, I've never heard of '720p mode' or '1080p mode' on a PC monitor before.
Whatever benefits you know your 20" has, remember I owned a 2407FPW, as does Jeff, which even though it is old, I will almost guarantee still beats the IQ on your 20".

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Originally posted by Estuansis:

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Even though it's old I doubt there are many monitors that can match my 2407wfp in picture quality. I paid $600 for it at the time and let me say it would still be worth all of that. In fact I would still consider it quite high-end.

Absolutely blows away my 22" Acer like nothing :)

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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Originally posted by theonejrs:

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While I agree that a 1080p movie converted to DVD looks bad on many computers, with HD graphics, it looks very close to the original 1080p

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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"there's scarcely any difference between 480p and 1080p"[/qoute]

I still don't see your above quote in anything I've said! The line you quoted in your answer above only mentions 1080p converted to DVD and processed with DVDRB/CCE, 2 pass. It's far superior to commercial DVD Quality! Example? Gladly!

There's a scene in "The Ultimate Gift", where something caught my eye. It turned out to be a spec of dust falling off a lampshade. You can't see it on the Commercial DVD, I know because I got it from Netflix and looked. You can see it plain as day on the DVD I made from the original 720p MKV file!

Russ

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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What you've got there is marketing BS that's taken you in. Every monitor with a scaler fitted (i.e. everything but the Dell 3007WFP and HP L3065) has the capability to display any common display resolution, and scale anything that's not in that resolution to fit. That is how a scaler works. I could not only send 720p and 1080p to either of my monitors, but I could send 320x200, 320x240, 352x264, 400x300, you get the idea. Having a 20" monitor your maximum res is 1680x1050, so '1080p' support is sneaky, because the panel can't actually display that res, it will just downscale it to fit. The same goes for HDTVs that are only 1366x768, most will accept 1080p signals, they will just downscale them to fit the screen.

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