Optio550 TV viewing

JanetR · Sep 1, 2003

After many months of researching, the Optio 550 is on my short list for finally jumping in and buying. One of the concerns I have is that I have read a couple of peoples reports saying that the playback on a TV either direct through the AV cable or even after having been burned to a VCD or DVD and then played through a DVD player on the TV is very bad quality. Has everyone found this to be the case. Creating slideshows and burning them to a CD to be displayed on the TV will be one of the main things I will be doing.

Alan Rhodes · Sep 1, 2003

The problem is, there is much less definition on a tv. Therefore you would find that no matter what camera you purchased,the tv would downgrade the pictures. For example the optio55 has 2592 pixels across and 1944 down.But a tv with only 625 lines down cannot display all of them.Before I owned the optio, I had camera with only 1280 x 1024 (1.3 megapixel) and even the pictures on this were downgraded by viewing on tv.
Digital pics are therefore best viewed on a good monitor.

JanetR said:
After many months of researching, the Optio 550 is on my short list
for finally jumping in and buying. One of the concerns I have is
that I have read a couple of peoples reports saying that the
playback on a TV either direct through the AV cable or even after
having been burned to a VCD or DVD and then played through a DVD
player on the TV is very bad quality. Has everyone found this to
be the case. Creating slideshows and burning them to a CD to be
displayed on the TV will be one of the main things I will be doing.

Adriank · Sep 2, 2003

I tried the TV playback out of curiosity. I looks to me that it fills the TV screen with the same number of pixels which appear on the camera's LCD screen - I don't see the point in it. If you burn the pictures to VCD or DVD you will get better resolution but as another poster stated, you won't get anything like the hi-res shots you can take with the camera.

Hope this helps

By the way I have had the Optio 550 for a couple of weeks now and am very happy with it.

JanetR said:
After many months of researching, the Optio 550 is on my short list
for finally jumping in and buying. One of the concerns I have is
that I have read a couple of peoples reports saying that the
playback on a TV either direct through the AV cable or even after
having been burned to a VCD or DVD and then played through a DVD
player on the TV is very bad quality. Has everyone found this to
be the case. Creating slideshows and burning them to a CD to be
displayed on the TV will be one of the main things I will be doing.

JanetR · Sep 2, 2003

Thanks Guys, I hope I am making the right decision. I've been tossing up between this and the Canon S50 for ages now.

Steve Erlich74972 · Sep 2, 2003

As has been pointed out in earlier threads, if you zoom in to 1.1x while displaying on the TV, the picture actually looks quit good. I was also wondering if the digital photo viewers that hook up to a TV and read directly from a media card work any better. I thought the problem with the 550 is that it is sending a low resolution thumbnail picture to the TV instead of a 5MB picture. The TV viewers are supposed to display from the large file, not a thumbnail. Anybody know for sure or have experience with these viewers?

Steve

JanetR said:
After many months of researching, the Optio 550 is on my short list
for finally jumping in and buying. One of the concerns I have is
that I have read a couple of peoples reports saying that the
playback on a TV either direct through the AV cable or even after
having been burned to a VCD or DVD and then played through a DVD
player on the TV is very bad quality. Has everyone found this to
be the case. Creating slideshows and burning them to a CD to be
displayed on the TV will be one of the main things I will be doing.

Alan Rhodes · Sep 2, 2003

Have had the Pentax for about 8 weeks now,and prior to this have owned various 35mm SLR,s and 2 digital over the last 45 years.I can honestly say that I am now getting better pictures than ever before, and all this without carrying around bags full of lenses and light meters etc.

JanetR said:
Thanks Guys, I hope I am making the right decision. I've been
tossing up between this and the Canon S50 for ages now.

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