HD Porn Player

It will be difficult to set up a HD porn theatre without understanding a little bit about screen resolution. We have learned from my previous post that 720p and 1080p represent different resolutions of HD video with 1080p being the highest. But how does that relate to the traditional screen resolutions that we use for PCs?

Well, if you think of a PC screen as being made up of rows and columns of pixels then the screen resolution is stated as columns x rows. Common screen resolutions you may have seen are 800 x 600 or 1024 x 768. To check the resolution of your own screen, right-click on an empty area of your desktop and select ‘Properties'. Then click on the ‘Settings' tab. You will see your current screen resolution.

Now, this is what HD resolutions look like when converted to traditional values...

720p = 1280 x 720

1080p = 1920 x 1080

Notice that the second value (rows) is the number of lines of the HD video.

What is the best format for me?

To determine the format that's best for me I first looked at the manual that came with my LCD TV. The manual states...

PC Resolution: 1360 x 768
HD standards: 720p and 1080i

The ‘PC Resolution' is the maximum resolution the TV can display (when connected to a PC). In my case the TV can display up to 768 lines of a TV picture. This is obviously enough to display 720p but not 1080p.

But what about 1080i? The manual says the TV supports it but it doesn't support 1080 lines of resolution? The answer lies in the conversion. Remember that interlaced formats are not playable on LCD TVs without conversion? Well, the conversion in this case also reduces the resolution and makes it fit into 768 line limit. So, even if I were to come across 1080i video on the Internet, it wouldn't be any better quality than the 720p videos.

So, the conclusion, in my case, is that my TV is best suited to playing 720p porn videos. Now all I have to do is find a place to get them and a way of playing them :)