RE: Review of HD1000 at Digital Producer.(Notentirelypositive)

//> picture quality is not as good as I expected (even with
//> 6megapixel source material).
//
//Even running in 1080i mode, the actual resolution used by the 
//Roku hardware is like 1024x560 or something similar to that 
//(I forget exactly, but it's not too far off). Because of 
//this, I would assume that 1 megapixel photos would look just 
//as good as 6 megapixel photos 8-)
//
//That's what I've observed in using the SDK, at least.

Not precisely true.  The UI and graphics use a 1024x576 framebuffer (that's the
widest input that the graphics scaler will accept), but for the display of video
and photos, the video scaler is used with the full output resolution
available(eg 1920x1080 or 1280x720).

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 Patrick Ellis
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