I've transferred some pictures (as JPEGs) from my digital camera to a 
Panasonic DMR-EX77 by putting the SD card into the slot and copying the 
files onto the HDD. The picture size is 3648 x 2736 which is big but within 
the stated capabilities of the Panasonic. When the pictures are displayed 
they look like they're very low resolution or have been compressed too much 
in the JPEG process. When the files are viewed on a PC (at 1600 x 1200) they 
look perfect.

The DMR-EX77 is connected to an HD Ready LCD TV via an HDMI cable. The 
Panasonic HDMI connection is set to 'Auto' which is supposed to select the 
best HD format to use based on what the TV can cope with. If I manually set 
this, it doesn't make any difference whether 1080i, 720p or 576p etc are 
selected, the pictures look the same i.e. bad.

I don't know what's going on here so if anyone has any bright ideas, I'd be 
glad to hear them. TIA.

Rog.

On Thu, 03 Jan 2008 18:06:34 +0000, Roger wrote:

> I've transferred some pictures (as JPEGs) from my digital camera to a
> Panasonic DMR-EX77 by putting the SD card into the slot and copying the
> files onto the HDD. The picture size is 3648 x 2736 which is big but
> within the stated capabilities of the Panasonic. When the pictures are
> displayed they look like they're very low resolution or have been
> compressed too much in the JPEG process. When the files are viewed on a
> PC (at 1600 x 1200) they look perfect.
> 
> The DMR-EX77 is connected to an HD Ready LCD TV via an HDMI cable. The
> Panasonic HDMI connection is set to 'Auto' which is supposed to select
> the best HD format to use based on what the TV can cope with. If I
> manually set this, it doesn't make any difference whether 1080i, 720p or
> 576p etc are selected, the pictures look the same i.e. bad.
> 
> I don't know what's going on here so if anyone has any bright ideas, I'd
> be glad to hear them. TIA.

I'd suspect the DMR-EX77 just has a very poor resampling algorithm built 
in. try resizing them first with a decent image manipulation program on a 
PC (I use Irfanview) to a size closer to the native resolution and see 
what happens.