Most DVD players especially older ones send the signal to the tv using an interlaced signal. The picture is split by scan lines odd lines are one picture and the even line the other picture. The TV then combines the two back into a single picture. First one then the other. It happens at a fast rate giving the illusion of a single picture.
Images that you see on a computer monitor and new TV’s display progressive image, a single image is displayed on the screen one line at a time until it reaches the bottom of the screen.
Newer DVD players including Blueray will play progressive images. Allowing the images you see on your computer to be seen on a TV via dvd or blueray.
Looking at a single image that is interlaced will look weird on a computer screen. Because you are seeing every other line of the image.
Now with that out of the way. To see the best possible image on a plasma TV, you need to make sure your dvd player is a progressive player. If it is blueray odds are it is, but the specs in the manual will tell you if it is a 720i, 720p, 1080i or 1080p, same for the TV. I is for interlaced and P is for progressive.
Once that is out of the way, you have to decide what format to display it in. Your DVD manual should tell you what image formats it supports for slide shows if it does at all. If not then you will have to choose a video format, that will also depend on your dvd manual.
I hope this has helped some and hasn’t caused you more questions than answers. 🙂
Is it best to save to Blu Ray Disk or… Don’t think it’s compression yet as I only tested 3 pieces of art on one dvd.
I’m not sure from your post whether you are distinguishing a Blu-ray and standard DVD …and what you have tried already. If you are burning to a standard DVD, your resolution will be no better than 720×480. That’s just the nature of the DVD video.
Consider avoiding video and stick to JPG files.
With the slowly emerging presence of Blu-ray, you may want to presently stick to distributing your photos on standard DVDs with 1920×1080 JPG files. Recent DVD players will display loose JPG files in standard definition and Blu-ray will display in high definition.
I think my options for just pure safety may just be to burn the project to Blu-Ray when it is ready… At least I’m guaranteed a sharp and beautiful image… but will destroy my already empty wallet… and my consumers. What I would like to ask you… is that right now, for viewing purposes,to see if this works… is I have saved my PS files (1920 by 1080 72dpi) in a TIFF format and want to burn to a DVD… When I did… the files were unreadable when I tried to play them back… I burned on a Nero DVD software… at best compression… TIFF seems to be the best way to acheive and keep all that data… What am I doing wrong now? How can a DVD player read TIFF files anyway… or can they. I just want to try this technique and see what results I can get… My friend burns his photographs (not paintings) on a DVD with Nero for wide screen viewing and has no problem… saved in JPG… But considering mine is artwork – wouldn’t TIFF be my best option… and then how to save to a DVD for viewing?
THANKS for your help!!
I never heard of a dvd player that can play tiff files. But that does not mean they don’t exist. Best thing to do is look in your dvd manual and see what files formats it supports. I would believe you are more apt to get jpg files working before tiff. High quality jpg as that resolution the images will be just fine, unless you are going over the image with a fine tooth comb(figuratively).
DVD players do not read TIFFs. It’s down to the processing chips and most of them merely support stuff that uses FFT with QIC/ YIC compression algorithms plus a few other things and that by all rights means JPEG for stills and MPEG derivatives for video. It’s simply a matter of cost efficiency. Nobody would plug another chip just for viewing TIFFs in a player that costs 30 bucks. Straight business math. BluRay supports a few additional formats, but per se TIFF is not part of the standard. PNG and BMP are. Apart from that – scaling quality and display clearness are merely a matter of how the player handles that. Again, their is no general guarantee that images burnt as data and viewed via the devices’ slideshow routines will in any way look the same on every player.
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