[FCP-L] Re: OT: Monitors

Jim,

> Jim Feeley wrote:
> To repeat, and perhaps trivially modify, my main point: good LCD screens can
> be acceptably sharp in non-native modes. At least, I'm able to spend
> 14-hour+ days working with images and text on a book,

I'm not questioning that you can find a setting on a monitor that works for you and so can others. Nor that some displays look better than others at non-native sizes. Nevertheless the issue is black-and-white when it comes to the physics. LCDs simply have one native resolution and an image is only optimized at that setting. Other sizes may be just fine, but will always look better at the native size.

Any image that does not match the native display resolution will be upscaled or downscaled to fit. Unlike a CRT which will scan differently to display the image. It simply gets down to each individual's tolerance levels. I've been in a lot of FCP suites with Apple 23" diplays set to 1650x1080 instead of their native 1920x1200 and for me personally, I find it impossible to use. But that's me, since obviously the other editors never saw a problem in the first place.

On a Mac, the quality of text also depends on what you have your text smoothing settings at. And the perception will also very with the contrast abilities and the brightness level of the monitor.

Veerly even more OT ... All that being said, it gets even wonkier when you talk about LCDs and the broadcast image. I have a Samsung 1080p TV at home, being fed over HDMI from a Scientific Atlanta HD cable box. The box is set to display everything natively at the incoming resolution. When I have compared native 1080i versus a forced cross-conversion to 720p by the box, quite frankly I see no difference at all. Same for the 720p channels versus the 1080i channels. Go figure!

Cheers,
Oliver

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