Wild-Eyed iPad 2 Retina Display Speculation Ignores One Thing: There’s No Content

Lundi, 17 Janvier 2011 15:45

Wild-Eyed iPad 2 Retina Display Speculation Ignores One Thing: There’s No Content

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Apple can do a lot of things, but it can’t push through a new video standard. All of this iPad 2 speculation – that the new iPad will have a Retina display to show 2048×1536 content, a considerable step up from the 1024×768 of the previous iPad – is pretty much a pipe dream. Perhaps you’ll have a slightly higher resolution display this year, but forget about a Retina

display.

Why? Because there’s no content that will look good on it. Jack Deneut writes:

Forget about DVD (Standard Definition) video, which if displayed at native resolution would be little bigger than a postage stamp on this new display. 720p HD video (the highest resolution sold on iTunes) would fill only a quarter of the screen, and 1080p video would have black bars not only along the top and bottom, but also along the sides of the screen. Of course, Apple will scale up these videos to fill the screen, but most people don’t expect pixel-doubling when watching HD video.

Wild-Eyed iPad 2 Retina Display Speculation Ignores One Thing: There’s No Content

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