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December 21st, 2016 08:00
Scaling 1920x1080 to 4K screen without interpolation
Hello everyone!
I have a question that I have not been able to find a proper answer to, and I'm starting to think it's impossible to do.
I recently bought a Dell XPS 15 with a 4K screen. I normally don't care for 4K but I thought it would be useful to futureproof my investment as much as possible, and I believe the 4K screen to be far brighter and more color accurate according to all the research I did prior.
Now to the issue: Windows 10 scaling is a bit wonky and I don't really care for the added pixel density at this present time. I tried to set the computer to 1920x1080 on the display settings and it works fine, but it looks blurry. It appears to scale the pixels in a "soft" way. I'm looking for a way to scale the pixels in a "hard" way, jagged edges and all. Is it possible?
Photoshop users might understand better if I describe it as follows: I want "nearest neighbor" scaling, not "bicubic" or "bilinear".
Any idea how I can do this?
ejn63
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December 21st, 2016 12:00
It's not possible - notebook panels display an optimum image only at their native resolution. Anything lower is going to be blurry.
If "recently" is less than 21 days from shipment from Dell, arrange a return for a system with an FHD panel.
deportu
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December 21st, 2016 21:00
I don't think that will be necessary. I cope with it. 4K is becoming more commonplace anyway.
Thank you for your response.