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A popular tool preceding the days of YouTube reviews, used for testing and reviewing displays.
Am I confused, or are these a bunch of JPGs on a CD? There's no hardware, right?
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This would also help to detect overscan. I remember when I was shopping for my first 1080p TV, many (most?) had overscan and no way to turn it off.
Overscan is where it cuts off the edges of the image right? I’m sure an LLM could offer an explanation, but I genuinely have never understood why overscan is even a thing on HDMI ports. Most times I plug my AppleTV or laptop into a TV using HDMI by default it’s cutting off the edge of the image. When is it ever a good thing to cut off the edges of the incoming digital image and why does this seem to be the default be…
Yeah you are, you go girl.
beautiful web design :) We aren't usually supposed to comment on it but im pretty sure thats exactly the reason this has been submitted.
It’s like a slice of the earlier web. Realized I haven’t seen a c|net logo around for a long time.
beautiful web design :) We aren't usually supposed to comment on it but im pretty sure thats exactly the reason this has been submitted.
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TLDR: Not JPGs, BMPs more likely. I recall when the first LCD TVs came out and I wanted to get a cheap 1080 one. The problem was that almost every TV said 1080 even if it was just 720 upscaled. I put a uniform image in BMP on a memory stick - every column being R, then G, then B repeated. As the image was exactly 1080, viewing it in full-screen on a 1080 screen gave a sort of uniform grey color. On an upscaled monito…
Why do you think it wouldn't work for a JPEG? I just made one like that, and it worked just fine.
JPGs are lossy encodings; my use-case would definitely not work with JPGs, not matter how high you put the quality.
For testing a display (like displaymate does) you literally want to light up specific pixels with specific colors. You can't do that with JPGs.
beautiful web design :) We aren't usually supposed to comment on it but im pretty sure thats exactly the reason this has been submitted.
It’s like a slice of the earlier web. Realized I haven’t seen a c|net logo around for a long time.
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Why do you think it wouldn't work for a JPEG? I just made one like that, and it worked just fine.
> Why do you think it wouldn't work for a JPEG? I just made one like that, and it worked just fine. JPGs are lossy encodings; my use-case would definitely not work with JPGs, not matter how high you put the quality. For testing a display (like displaymate does) you literally want to light up specific pixels with specific colors. You can't do that with JPGs.
Instead, you need to export the JPEG at a resampled resolution that's a multiple of your target resolution, such that each pre-transform source-image pixel gets mapped to its own entirely-independent JPEG color block.
Most obvious (though perhaps not optimal?) approach: nearest-neighbour upscale your image by 8x, and then save as JPEG with 100% quality (which will create 8x8 blocks with 4:4:4 subsampling.)
beautiful web design :) We aren't usually supposed to comment on it but im pretty sure thats exactly the reason this has been submitted.