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Full Screen HD on Cinema 23" and MBP
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Hey,
I bought a 23" HD Cinema SCreen from apple and when in windows, the quicktime hd trailers are less than the screen width (which is right with a resolution of 1920x1200) However when loaded into mac osx, playing the same trailer, the Actual Size is bigger than the resolution 1920x1200 and so i have to use the fit to screen which makes the trailer smaller than it actually is.
Can anyone explain this? The resolution in osx is 100% right (settings wise).
Thanks
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Originally Posted by rhodesy
Hey,
I bought a 23" HD Cinema SCreen from apple and when in windows, the quicktime hd trailers are less than the screen width (which is right with a resolution of 1920x1200) However when loaded into mac osx, playing the same trailer, the Actual Size is bigger than the resolution 1920x1200 and so i have to use the fit to screen which makes the trailer smaller than it actually is.
Can anyone explain this? The resolution in osx is 100% right (settings wise).
Thanks
Windows assumes 96 dpi, OS X assumes 72 dpi.
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Originally Posted by olePigeon
Windows assumes 96 dpi, OS X assumes 72 dpi.
Isn't that irrelevant? Pixels matter, not DPI in this situation?
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I thought the dpi effected the text size - not video.
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That's weird. In full screen the movie should be playing with a 1:1 pixel ratio. So it should fill the entire width of the screen.
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Last edited by slffl; Jun 1, 2006 at 05:03 PM.
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I don't have a problem viewing the QTHD trailers in OS-X. When "Actual Size" is selected, the width of the window frame on the left side shifts the picture off-screen a little on the right, but when "Full Screen" is selected, they fill the width of the monitor. I don't understand why it would be any different on the MBP.
BTW, I did the math for 1920 x 1200 pixels on a 23" 16:10 display and it comes out to 98 dpi... closer to 96 than 72.
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Iv figured it out! It's because i was in mirror mode - it mirrors the resoluton too...
Could just be me but I dont see the different in quality between this and a dvd :S
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