Today, using the same connecting cables with my iBook I plugged the computer into the ‘Video 1’ input on the AV unit in our home theater and what do you think I got?<\/p>\n
<\/center><\/p>\nSurround sound quality from the MP3 soundtrack – which you can listen to here<\/a> – was excellent, even if only in two channel stereo. Visual quality was marginal, probably accounted for by the fact that I used a fairly modest quality setting on the Canon 5D when snapping the images. Further, I constrained the quality of the Quicktime movie to keep file size small for speedy loading from my web site. On the other hand, we are talking a 100″ diagonal screen here – now that’s<\/i> an enlargement!<\/p>\n The screen is 16:9 format (1.78:1) which suits most movies. The QTVR is 2.55:1 which is standard widescreen, and the difference in aspect ratios accounts for the black bars at the top and base of the screen area. I could save the QTVR image in CubicConverter to match this format if desired, thus filling the screen.<\/p>\n For my upcoming one man show at a local winery<\/a> in April 2007, I hope to get in a couple of big screen TVs as an advertising promotion with a local TV vendor and will thus have QTVRs running throughout the show in addition to the display of framed, static photographs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 100″ of forest glory! I wrote the other day about displaying QTVR pictures on the TV screen. Today, using the same connecting cables with my iBook I plugged the computer into the ‘Video 1’ input on the AV unit in our home theater and what do you think I got? Surround sound quality from the … Continue reading QTVR on the big screen<\/span>