2007-07-20 00:03:05 · 5 answers · asked by Darren P 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Monitors
it doesn't really matter what format the pic is, wether its a gif, jpeg, bmp, png or whatever, what matters is the resolution.....best to have it saved in the largest resolution you can set it at, but keep the aspect ratio to 16:9 as this will be best viewed on a wide screen.....if you store the pic in 4:3 it'll still show up but look like an "analog" image and possibly be pixelated and look a little grainy on a high def screen.
1280x1024 is probably going to work best, and jpegs are the norm.
2007-07-20 00:09:48 · answer #1 · answered by Helping Since 1969 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It does not matter what the format is for the TV, the computer driving the TV will take card of that.
If you are going to display a picture filling the screen on a widescreen TV, make sure that it has a 16:9 (width:height) aspect ratio so that when it is scaled to fill the TV screen it is not distorted.
There is no point in having pictures that are a higher resolution than the TV, so if you are running in 720p use 1280 by 720 images. 1080i or p use 1920 by 1080 resolution.
It is a good idea to scale up/down the images in photoshop first. That will probably do a better job of scaling the image than Windows will. Also if you do not like the way it is scaling the image, you can go back to the original image and change how it is being scaled.
The best file format is a loss-less one. Jpegs files are smaller, but that is because they get rid of some information. Good editing programs can chose the amount of compression to let you get higher quality (bigger files) or small files (lower quality). The best bet is a loss-less but compressed format like a TIF. a 24 bit bitmap will look good, but each 1920 by 1080 file will be 6MB. Not too bad unless you are really tight on storage. (About 160 files on a 1GB memory key)
2007-07-20 00:59:56 · answer #2 · answered by Simon T 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
BMP the old OS2 format
JPEG is compressed on save
a bitmap will be a true pixel mapping of the image data
this only applies to images scanned in or created on the PC
converting another file format to BMP wont improve
the image quality
2007-07-20 00:07:01 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Jpeg
2007-07-20 00:05:56 · answer #4 · answered by mark 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
.tif
2007-07-20 00:06:18 · answer #5 · answered by goldman 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋