Question about HD on a computer
August 4th, 2016
TIA
Nope, no improvement that I know of.
You can tell the diffrence. When i bought my Blu-ray drive for my computer what only had a normal LCD screen. Their was a diffrence when i watched blu ray discs on it.It looked better. But when i hooked it up to my HD tv its looked WAY better.
Hmm…maybe not so stupid of a question, two conflicting answers!
Maybe I should just download one regular dvd rip and a HD rip of the same movie and see if I can tell a difference. I just don’t want to waste time downloading HD rips if it won’t matter on my components.
Thanks for the quick replies!
Do you have something on your computer to play blu Ray
Stupid question, but I am just wondering if there is any point in downloading high definition formats (like Blu-Ray rips) when I'm going to just be playing the video back on my computer only. I just have a normal LCD monitor, so I guess it's incapable of high definition. So will I notice any improvement in quality in HD over just a regular dvd rip?
TIA
You seem to be confused. Your LCD monitor IS an HDTV. It has a resolution higher than SDTV. LCD HDTV’s do not have some special feature that sets them them apart from a computer monitor (apart from connectors). It isnt the screen or monitor that makes something High Definition the screen simply has to be able to fit the image.
You seem to be confused. Your LCD monitor IS an HDTV. It has a resolution higher than SDTV. LCD HDTV's do not have some special feature that sets them them apart from a computer monitor (apart from connectors). It isnt the screen or monitor that makes something High Definition the screen simply has to be able to fit the image.
basically, HD wont work on small screen. (well, its not wont work actually. It just make it useless)
idk how to say actually lol…
It depends on the resolution of your LCD screen, but all screens are at least 720p (1280x something) if your LCD is 1920x something or over, it’s FullHD
I think I got you guys, it depends on what the resolution is of my LCD, as to whether or not it is capable of HD playback. It is 1600×900 resolution, which I don’t know is what in “p” or dpi or whatever that is. As for quality, frankly my old Sony CRT monitor (forget the model number but I think it was one of the best CRT’s made) was better in all aspects (except size, it was a 19 inch screen) than my new Samsung one (the colors were much more accurate for one thing, and it was clearer/sharper). But it blew out (smelled like smoke and the screen wouldn’t turn on! lol) so I just replaced it.
I have a standard old TV I use and as I hardly watch it much less watch movies on it, I am totally unconcerned about getting a HD tv or player so I don’t know anything about them. But when I download the occasional movie to watch (or tv show), I was just wondering if it made a difference on my LCD screen what quality it was (regular DVD or HD). I’d rather download DVD quality since the file sizes are smaller and it’s good enough quality for me, but on some movies/tv shows it seems I have no choice and I suppose DVD links will be phased out entirely in some time.
So I guess I’ll just stick with DVD rips while I can.
try downloading just the 1st 1 or 2 parts of a HD rip and see if it will play
when you extract be sure to tic “keep broken files”
I think you will see a diff but is it enuf of a diff to warrant D/L’ing the larger files, that’s up to you
I think I got you guys, it depends on what the resolution is of my LCD, as to whether or not it is capable of HD playback. It is 1600x900 resolution,
1600×900 can do 720p which is 1280×720. But not FullHD which is 1920×1080, obviously It’s not exactly rocket science as you can see.
Try getting sample HD and look if you see a difference
It’s sure that you’ll see a difference between movie you download and a real bluray , since the movie you download are compress and the bluray is uncompress. It’s like watching a xvid and the actual dvd , you’ll see a difference.
But watching bluray on a computer screen , It might not be the best , I mean unless you have a 40” as LCD screen
In my opinion bluray movie are more enjoyable on a 40” (or more) tv
1600x900 can do 720p which is 1280x720. But not FullHD which is 1920x1080, obviously It's not exactly rocket science as you can see.
No it isn’t! But then again…
I watched the regular DVD rip of “Whiteout” and a 480 BR rip. Definitely a difference! But not as I thought: the DVD version had more of a “soft” focus look (not as clear) and the BR was very sharp and clear.
BUT, both were “splotchy” or pixelated on my screen. I purposely downloaded the BR rip of this because as I was suspecting a movie that would be not only dark but have a lot of “white” scenes that would be very washed out on a lesser quality rip, I wanted to see if the BR would correct that.
But it didn’t, it just made the picture overall clearer. The “big block” pixelation problem was still just as prevalent as with the DVD rip.
So why is this? Does it have to do with my graphics card? My new monitor? I know my old Sony CRT had the superior picture (and definitely more “true” color), but it had pixelation too. So perhaps not so simple… Anyway thanks for all the replies, I suppose I will have to weigh the sharper picture against the extra download time and know that either will still have the blotchy pixelation problem on my monitor.