[Olpc-open] Effective Resolution of 984×738 ?

[Bert Freudenberg]

Am 03.09.2008 um 14:02 schrieb Seth Woodworth:

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>
> Did anybody see this from Mary Lou back in May?  I sure missed it:
> http://pixelqi.com/blog1/2008/05/27/higher-resolution-than-we-thought-the-xo-laptop-screen/
>
> The XO screen has been shown to be higher resolution than we thought.
> Michiel Klompenhouwer from Philips Research says the color  
> resolution is
> effectively 984×738, even though strictly speaking straight division
> indicates color resolution of 692×520 (this is 1/3 of 1200×900 our
> black&white resolution). We have been saying for some time that the
> resolution is about 800×600, but his new study shows a more exact  
> way of
> measuring perceived resolution. Michiel presented an analysis of the
> our screen and other display pixel layouts at the Society for
> Information Display Annual Meeting this week in Los Angeles in a talk
> entitled "Comparing the Effective Resolution of Various RGB Subpixel
> Layouts" SID08.
>
>
> Can someone think of where to document this on the wiki off hand?


This is already included:

http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Hardware_specification

And it's confusing the heck out of people ever since someone attempted  
to estimate the "color resolution". It is extremely misleading. The  
actual frame-buffer resolution never changes, it is always 1200x900  
pixels at 16 bit depth, and that's what matters to developers.

- Bert -