Native Resolution = Max Resolution?

[userofcomputer]

On LCD-displays, (BTW what's TFT?) is
Native Resolution = Max Resolution?

 

[nts]

Originally posted by: userofcomputer
On LCD-displays, (BTW what's TFT?) is
Native Resolution = Max Resolution?

TFT = Thin Film Transistor AFAIK

On some screens native=max but on others (laptop ones in my experience) you can up the resolution but the screen ends up scrolling (cant display more pixels then native res).

HTH

 

[Peter]

LCDs have distinct pixels, totally unlike CRT monitors. That means the only useful resolution on an LCD screen is its native one. Lower resolutions will be extrapolated, higher resolutions either won't be displayed or will be scaled down, pixels omitted.

 

[xtknight]

When you scroll to emulate a bigger resolution, that's called virtual resolution. That's a way of emulating higher resolutions. The only ways to emulate the lower resolutions are:

[*]Cropping/centering
[*]Scaling

The virtual resolution ("scrolling") depends on your graphics driver, not the LCD. You cannot display more than the native resolution on an LCD, and you can't display less than it. Other resolutions like 1024x768 are digitally scaled (unlike CRTs which are analog scaled). This digital scaling almost always produces a worse picture than its analog counterpart. When you switch to "1024x768" on a 1280x1024 LCD by scaling, the picture will be a little blurry and jagged.

CRTs have a finite number of dots (determined by dot pitch and size), it's just that the interpolation/blending is a lot better ("Gaussian").