On 07/27/05 20:25 ET, lexa695 said...
OK, I just looked at the remote, I searched the
menus and i see nothing to change the res. Anyone
familar with the 507UY that can tell me how to
do this? I can't even change the aspect from full.
Lexa695,
I don't think you understand how video signals work - let me explain.
First, I assume you mean the Panasoinc 50PHD7UY (also on that model, not sure if the 50" Fujitsu uses the same glass or not). That model Panasonic has a resolution of 1366x768. Meaning is has 768 groups of red/green/blue pixels counting up the screen and 1366 groups of red/green/blue pixels counting across the screen. So the native resolution of the panel is 1366x768.
Any video signal you send into the display has to be modified to 1366x768, if it's to fill the entire screen. This is what a scaler does - for example: it will take a 640x480 (standard TV signal) and dupilcate the pixels running across (now at 1280), then add 86 more pixels across somewhere using some complex math to figure where it thinks its best to put them in. The pixels counting up will have 288 added to them in a similar fashion.
This is not something you change in a menu, your plasma has a resolution it has been physically built to.
The scaler takes all incoming signals and changes them to this resolution - the quality of the scaler will depend on the speed of the processor used in the scaler, memory (how many pixels it stores to evaluate), and the complex algorithms it uses to make its decesions.
You can find settings in the video menu sometimes that allow you to modify the algorithm used to evaluate the video frame.
