1920x1080 by any chance (2 Viewers)

[ThaClown]

hehe I agree, I was buisy for 2 hours just to change my Monochrome MP-TVSeries xml!
would be weeks of work for almost the same thing...

 

[Theydon Bois]

So what makes a 1080p 'better' then, if a 720p scales so well? higher res icons?

 

[revs]

Yep - more information, so higher res.

To be honest though, unless you have a huge screen (100" +) I dont think there would be much of a difference. Black at 720p is the same as black at 1080p

Album Art/DVD covers may render slightly nicer I guess.

 

[ThaClown]

Yes, but most covers I see are not great anyway so that does not really happen either...

 

[revs]

agreed. i'm pretty sure 720p skins run a lot faster than 1080p ones anyway!

 

[tourettes]

Album Art/DVD covers may render slightly nicer I guess.

Actually album art should render already nicer when using a 1080p display with the 720p skin. No need to have any support from the skin side (Of cource you will need to have high quality album art to see the difference.)

 

[revs]

I'm guessing that MP multiplies the Width and Height and figures out the X and Y coordinates, then renders the images?

So would 1080p graphics with XMLs for 720p look better than using 720p graphics? Am I making sense?

 

[Raytestrak]

I do have one issue, but I don't know if it's related to the theme not being native 1080p or due to the videodriver or something. In the scrolling text areas e.g. in My Movies (imdb info) there's some 'pixelation'. Between the lines, I see random white dots, which shouldn't be there. It's not really bothersome, but I was wondering if other (1080p) users have this issue too.

 

[revs]

I've not noticed that. Make sure you update DirectX to the latest version (I find that solves a lot of issues I've had in the past).

 

[Raytestrak]

I don't believe there's a newer version for Vista. It could easily be my hardware, I've got an Aopen MiniPC which uses the intel 965 express chipset. I'm not a fan of onboard video, but lack of space pushed me towards the minipc. Cute piece of hardware I must say.