Burning JPEG photos to DVD

[Stargazer77517]

I made a slide show of some of my photos, burned them to DVD, but when I played them on by 42" LCD they looked really bad. How do I get the same quality my monitor has on my 42" LCD?

I used nero to burn with.
Thanks in advance.

[kenw]

make sure you size them for the 42", they may get stretched or skrunched.

iow, if your display is 1080x800, size the jpgs at 1080x800. usually making them larger than required is ok (it depends), but smaller will get ugly quick. Meaning that 2160x1600 will probably look ok, but 540x400 will likely get pixlated.

[Stargazer77517]

First of all thanks for the response. If you can visualize this, What is happening is the same as a program broad cast in analog vs high def. There isnt any pixulation it is the image is not sharp as it is on the monitor...kinda fuzzy looking...hope I have made sense,LOL.
They look fine as in proportional...not streached or anything like that. Just fuzzy.

Originally Posted by kenw

make sure you size them for the 42", they may get stretched or skrunched.

iow, if your display is 1080x800, size the jpgs at 1080x800. usually making them larger than required is ok (it depends), but smaller will get ugly quick. Meaning that 2160x1600 will probably look ok, but 540x400 will likely get pixlated.

[kenw]

you might need to adjust the resolution. To do that, however, you need to work from the original. normally a 100ppi/dpi resolution is good on monitors altho you might need more. the default for jpg is only 72.

[Stargazer77517]

HMMMMM Now thats something I havent tried.....Ill have to look into it. I wonder if using a TIFF image would be better than JPEG...Thanks for the idea.

Originally Posted by kenw

you might need to adjust the resolution. To do that, however, you need to work from the original. normally a 100ppi/dpi resolution is good on monitors altho you might need more. the default for jpg is only 72.

[AndrewCCM]

Are you just burning images to a dvd (ie, just copying the file names) or are you actually making a DVD Slideshow Movie out of the images? If the latter, you (the slideshow compiler software) are compressing the images into standard definition at 480P. That is then uprez'd via your DVD player when shown.

[Stargazer77517]

Andrew, I am doing the latter and it sounds like what is happing....Can I adjust the compiler for HD or a higher quality...Or is it meaning I need a blueray burner to get the higher format.

Originally Posted by AndrewCCM

Are you just burning images to a dvd (ie, just copying the file names) or are you actually making a DVD Slideshow Movie out of the images? If the latter, you (the slideshow compiler software) are compressing the images into standard definition at 480P. That is then uprez'd via your DVD player when shown.

[AndrewCCM]

You can't view HD content on a standard DVD player..So...my suggestions would be..

1. Just burn the images to a DVD as files and let your DVD Player show as slideshow (if it has the ability)..

or

2. Use the highest bit rate/quality settings available within Nero. I have not personally used Nero for this specific purpose, but it may just not be very good at producing HQ slideshows. I am not sure. There are other applications out there to try...But I am unsure how well they will look either in SD.

[Stargazer77517]

Good deal, Ill give #1 a try. I have a Sony blueray and I do recall an slideshow option...Ill look at the manual to make sure.
Thanks

[bht-kevin]

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