Image Format: 4:3 and 16:9
Image Format: 4:3 vs. 16:9: A 4:3 image format, (4 measures wide, 3 measures tall) is the typical image ratio for the previous generations of television sets and large projection screens, commonly known as “full screen” formatting. Some clients still prefer this format, with its classic
A 16:9 image format (known as wide-screen) is vastly becoming the industry standard for new Plasma & LCD televisions as well as Large Screen Projection. Power Points and other Visuals look more professional with their sleeker look.
Royal Productions carries both types of screen formats in a wide variety of sizes. Screens are usually decorated with Screen Surrounds, a decorative surrounding that usually ties in with the event theme, colors or company logo.
Standard definition, or S.D., refers to the pixel ratio, or resolution, of standard broadcast television video. The standard definition ratio is 720 pixels wide by 486 pixels high. A pixel is a rectangular dot that can be addressed to display any color, creating a picture or series of pictures. There are many different types of picture formats, based on the number of pixels in them.
It is ideal for an image to be broadcast in the format that it was created in. If you have something that was created at 100 x 100 pixels and then broadcast it at 720 x 486 pixels it will look pixelated, or jagged and rough.
HD or High Definition is 1920 x 1080 pixels in a wide screen format or 1440 x 1080 pixels in a 4:3 format. It has approximately 6 times the pixel information per frame as standard definition. Obviously, it takes more robust and therefore more expensive equipment to display high definition images properly.
You should be note that most projectors display an image that is 1024 x 768 pixels. So either way, images will have to be up converted or down converted to display at all. This means that a machine processes all the images and runs them through a digital template very quickly so that the images can be projected. We have projectors that will display higher resolution and therefore give a true HD image if that is what your event requires.
We can help you sort through all the technical jargon and make your show amazing. Contact us today for your next event, and we can answer any questions you may have regarding image formatting or any other aspect of audio-visual production.