12th June 2006, 8:31 PM
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cathode_ray_tube
This specifically mentions that the resolution of CRT actually is fixed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCD
It should be noted that the major complaint of proper scaling is really more of a software issue than a hardware limitation. The makers seem to prefer stretching the image in a rather ugly fasion (division by fractions doesn't work with cruel hard FIXED PIXELS, you can't have half a pixel) to just showing it at it's original resolution (which would make it smaller) or just "scaling up" while maintaining the ration (which would result mainly in just having some black bars around the image, which really isn't a problem since a normal TV has AIR in the same place as the black bars).
This specifically mentions that the resolution of CRT actually is fixed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LCD
It should be noted that the major complaint of proper scaling is really more of a software issue than a hardware limitation. The makers seem to prefer stretching the image in a rather ugly fasion (division by fractions doesn't work with cruel hard FIXED PIXELS, you can't have half a pixel) to just showing it at it's original resolution (which would make it smaller) or just "scaling up" while maintaining the ration (which would result mainly in just having some black bars around the image, which really isn't a problem since a normal TV has AIR in the same place as the black bars).
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)