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Post #2 by badidea
Source ForumMacNN
CategoryTroubleshooting
Post DateThu, 8 Jul 2004 - 06:43
Original URLhttps://web.archive.org/web/20050523072716/https://forums.macnn.com/showthread.php?t=219521
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Originally posted by Diggory Laycock:
TV signals are at a fixed size - why is it that a TVs can be big and not get fuzzy - but if you blow up captured video on a Computer it gets fuzzy?

Is it because the TV screen is analogue - whereas the computer expands the image pixels digitally?

[edit] - damn - this was meant to go in the lounge...


It's because the resolution of a TV screen is always the same, no matter how big it is! (a small TV is usually a lot sharper than a big one because of the same amount of pixels in a smaller area)
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