Whenever I get photos off the internet with higher resolutions than 1080 x 960 and crop them to that resolution they come out a little blurry. I've seen other wallpapers that were very sharp so I know its not this display. Should I crop them to the correct aspect ratio then scale them to 1080 x 960 or what? A response would be much appreciated.
TransX2 said:
Whenever I get photos off the internet with higher resolutions than 1080 x 960 and crop them to that resolution they come out a little blurry. I've seen other wallpapers that were very sharp so I know its not this display. Should I crop them to the correct aspect ratio then scale them to 1080 x 960 or what? A response would be much appreciated.
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You want to crop them, not scale them. Scaling them will distort and compress the pixels, making it lose quality. Your probably saving the jpg at a low quality, save it at 100%, it really won't hurt anything .
i was told its not 1080p but its better then 720p ?
1280x800. HD 720 is 1280x720
rgarjr said:
1280x800. HD 720 is 1280x720
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so slightly better then 720p?
Slightly. It just has added height. It is a 16:10 ratio instead of 16:9. Its not a big difference, and is basically the same thing between 1920x1080 versus 1920x1200.
Personally, the extra height is a plus.
Aspect ratios are a funny beast. HDTV (720p as well as 1080p or FullHD in marketing terms) is 16:9. 800x480, which I consider to be the "classic" Android resolution--it's been more or less standard from the time of the Nexus one, up through the SGS2--has a 15:9 (aka 5:3) aspect ratio, so it is slightly wider when held in portrait than a GNexus. The Note is 1280x800, so at 16:10 (or 8:5) it lies in between the two--not as skinny as a 720p phone, but not as wide as a "typical" 800x480 phone.
On a complete tangent, I miss when 16:10 was the standard for monitors. Most monitors now are 1080p rather than 1920x1200; the latter is really a superior resolution for a computer imo.
Don't forget it uses Pentile display, not RGB, so there are less subpixels than regular screens. With that said, I thought my Note has excellent screen.
5.3"
1280x800
285 Pixels Per Inch (PPI)
WXGA HD Super AMOLED - PenTile
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samsung_Galaxy_Note#cite_note-0
So when encoding a video what should I set the resolution too ?
phillyrican said:
So when encoding a video what should I set the resolution too ?
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1280x720 to keep the same aspect ratio
No its 1280x800, which is .625 aka 16:10, not .5625 which is 16:9. It doesn't matter though, keep your video at its original ratio, if you want to stretch the video, let the video player do it.
I wanted to know if there was a way to change the QHD screen to 1080p for performance boost and battery life.
DISPLAY DENSITY
Are there any setting to improve this 720p display??? it looks worse than some TFT displays!!!
I ve tried wm size command but it no longer work since it is Android 12.
KukusKufy said:
I ve tried wm size command but it no longer work since it is Android 12.
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Is there any merit to doing that?
I'm middle aged and with not-so-good eyesight, but fhd for me is more than enough.
ov_darkness said:
Is there any merit to doing that?
I'm middle aged and with not-so-good eyesight, but fhd for me is more than enough.
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I just never see it enable 4K even I m viewing images with gallery app.
So I just want to force it for better experience.
KukusKufy said:
I just never see it enable 4K even I m viewing images with gallery app.
So I just want to force it for better experience.
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I'm not convinced, if this would be visible. Probably depends on your visual acuity.
Mine is not the best, and for the life of me I can't see the difference between 1440p and 1080p on such a small screen.
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I'm not convinced, if this would be visible. Probably depends on your visual acuity.
Mine is not the best, and for the life of me I can't see the difference between 1440p and 1080p on such a small screen.
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There IS it, I ve paid for it, and I WANT it.
And experience will be different for me when viewing large size image in 1:1 scale.
It is just like refresh rate, since there r people cannot get the difference between 120hz and 60hz(or lower). But you cannot just disable higher refresh rate FOREVER just because there r some people cannot distingurish.
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Is there any merit to doing that?
I'm middle aged and with not-so-good eyesight, but fhd for me is more than enough.
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It's also to remove unnecessary downscale/upscale when watching a 4k movie. Since most app view the screen as a QHD one, VLC for example, will render a 4k video as a QHD one by downscaling it, then the phone will upscale it back to 4K.
Sure you will probably not see a lot of difference with native 4k as the upscaling technology from Sony is pretty good and you still have the 4K screen resolution giving extra sharpness.
Also, what some people seems to forget, is that the image displayed will always be 4K on this screen, a FHD image will be upscaled to 4K by the phone, and the higher pixel density make it far better than the same FHD content on a QHD screen especially for AMOLED screen that are somewhat blurry on the edge due to the subpixels arrangement.
This being said, you can put the screen in native resolution all the time, just going in the developper option and setting the screen minimal width to 1644pixels to match the 1644*3840 pixel resolution. Doing this, VLC that I tried perfectly render a movie in 4K, but your overall UI is ****ed up and you can barely use the phone. That's not what is wanted. Sony is just boring us for 4 generation with its 4k white list apps. I don't even know what is the recommanded app to watch their 4k HDR spiderman extract.
It's stated that the screen only runs at 4k in certain apps and scenarios, Theres no option to change that.
More accurately: The phone only render graphic at 4k in certain apps and scenarios*
The screen always runs at 4K since it's hardware and number of pixels can't physically be changed. The phone upscale every content to 4K all the time but render some whitelisted app directely in 4K. Still better than proper 2K as the pixels are smaller, but also mean your 4K videos on VLC will be downscaled to 2K by VLC then upscaled back to 4K by the phone, only because Sony didn't whitelist VLC that is perfectly able to run native 4K.
I almost have the same question, but instead of 4K I want to set a global 2K resolution.
4K is way too overkill, but 2K is the best middle ground between display clarity and battery life.
that is what you basically have, 99% of the time your phone won't render 4k. Doing that for all scenarios in which things are rendered in 4k would make absolutely zero sense because then they would need to be upscaled again to fit the 4k reselution