I have frequently heard that it is better to have a display resolution with the resolution of the content you want to display on the device.
I.e if your content is 720p it is going to look better in a device with 720p than a 1080p or 4k/8k.
Can't the display (with the hardware and software) actually display 1 pixel as a set of 36 identical (with the same colour) pixels?
You have a 8k TV and you are seing 720p content. Since the pixel count is 6 times vertically and 6 times horizontally the simplest thing to do would be to multiply each pixel 6 times vertically and 6 times horizontally. I don't know how a square of 36 pixels would look compared to 1 big pixel even if they had the same color on two screens with the same total size and 36 times the density in the higher resolution screen viewed from the same distance.
I know that AI hallucinates and there can be mistakes/errors in fidellity with replication and any upscale algorithm but it seems strange to claim that a 720p video will look best at a 720p display (all else equal) that on 8k display. I want to be able to see all sorts of content on 1 single display instead of changing displays depending on my content. I don't need to invent data and try to increase the quality of the image when that data isn't there in the first place
Even with 360p and 480p can't the display simply show black bars horizontally or vertically?
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I wasn't familiar with the term integer scalling. Now the question becomes if there is integer scaling with do some people say that a 720p video will look better on a 720p screen than a 8k one (ceteris paribus all else constant).