From another perspective, the resolution format of the newly-developed display is nearly twice the resolution of today's high-resolution smart phone displays.
Moreover, the Acer SmartFormat technology instantly synchronizes with wide-format displays without any resolution adjustments from the notebook, while supporting multi-format for instant projection.
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And DVD, which never was a high-resolution format, actually helped sell HDTVs for several years because it looked so good on those new sets even before much true HD content was available.
It also offers a progressive-scan, wide-screen, 60-frame-per-second MPEG-2 format that delivers far less resolution than full-fledged HD, but may work well when transferred to DVD.
Also known as "ultra-high definition", the format offers four times the resolution of the current 1080p HD standard and is best appreciated up close, or further away from a mega-sized screen.
The RAW data format provides pure data for high-resolution images, and uses lossless compression for more compact, yet uncompromised, data files.
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It all started when Hasbro released the portable, disc-based VideoNow player, which used a proprietary format to play back grainy low-resolution monochrome video at a low frame rate.
Display makers claim to make sure their sets can show video at the best possible resolution regardless of source and format, and that's where the question above comes into play.
It followed up with the VideoNow Color, which uses a proprietary format to play back grainy, low-resolution, color video at a low frame rate.
We all know that 1080i has the higher resolution, so why bother offering another format like 720p?
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As for the video player we had to stick to MP4 format and nothing larger than the screen's resolution -- the standard iPod video settings worked like a charm (we had 900kbps and 30fps encoded by Xvid).
While other smartphone vendors have also released smartphones with AMOLED displays, the S4 has the highest resolution so far, with a pixel format of 1, 920 by 1, 080, IHS senior analyst Vincent Leung explained in a note released Tuesday morning.
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The Cintiq 22HD touch offers a wide-format, full HD LCD with 1920 x 1080 pixel resolution.
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Our test shows that it imports these flawlessly and can export its slides to PowerPoint's format, though without its unique transitions and with some loss of resolution.
The JVC can record and play in standard DV format and convert its own high-def recordings on the fly for playback at lower resolution on old-fashioned TVs.
The UltraHD format was voted by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) last October and refers devices with a horizontal resolution of at least 3, 840 pixels.
Letter Box format is actually meant for widescreen movie theaters but a lot of people want the same aspect ratio and resolution as they see in the theaters, problem is, most of the time the master recording is in LB format.
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The YHT-697BL offers a full complement of HD Audio format decoding, including Dolby TrueHD, DTS-HD Master Audio, Dolby Digital Plus and DTS-HD High Resolution Audio.
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