I have had my panos displayed in the same mannor except on a 52" plasama display.

The 16:9 aspect ratio will really stretch the image horizontally.

If you are feeling spunky read my post on this subject located here
http://www.easypano.com/forum/display_topic_threads.asp?ForumID=1&TopicID=1804&PagePosition=1

You need to understand how the image is effected by aspect ratio in relation to your viewer window size.

In this case you NEED to know two things.
1. The aspect ratio of the display device
2. The screen resolution that will be used on the display device.

This is a photo of a 568 x 400 viewer window on a 52" plasma screen at 16:9
This is an explorer browser window displaying a web page. Look at the tool bar and notice how much horizontal stretching is going on. I am not sure if you can tell but the the pano was stretched horizontally by about 20%. I used a default FOV of 100 and that really made the image seem even more distorted.

http://northwestflorida.com/360/monitor_2_0605.jpg

You are going to have to change the viewer size to compensate for the aspect ratio or your pano will be distorted horizontally.

General Lee

About 3 or 4 years ago I did some research on the image size versus the viewer window size.  I was looking a the "Master" Prof Dersch author of the ptviewer.jar [ver 2.5].  The highest quality parameter specified was 3.

ALL of his images that were viewed were sharp, clear, no rippling.  I asked my self why he was able to get such great rendering when mine (up to that point) were terrible.  Also the images were generally taken with a 3.34 mega pixel camera.

I found that there was indeed a dimensional relationship between his image and the viewer.  On the average of 10 of Professor Derschs web page dispalys  the viewer height was about 30 - 35 % smaller than the actual image height.  So if your image height was 1200 pixels high, the viewer appeared [to me] best rendered at 300 pixels high.  Hence, the 3x rule.

It is 4 years later now and ptviewer is now at version 2.7 and 2.8.  Few rendering modifications have been added to the viewer such as Lanscros algorithm which allows quality parameter of 4 and 5.   I will admit that the 3x rule might not apply now, because cameras are now 6 , 8 and 12 mega pixel flavors.  Also, most of the forum members now are displaying their work  2/3 screen and 'FULL Screen'.

The 3x rule might still apply if you are using a 3 megapixel camera.

Hope this helps

Dave

ajay,

A 16:9 aspect ratio will stretch the image horizontally. The screen resolution will also effect this somewhat becuase it may change the "screen aspect ratio". Pick a screen aspect ratio of .75 and compensate for the monitors aspect ratio and it should be fine.

So you should make the image closer to square so that it appears rectangular on the plasma screen. This will look distorted on 4:3 monitor by being taller than wide. But look normal on the plasma.

For full screen dispay especially on a plasma display you need to have at least a 4000 x 2000 image. 5000 x 2500 would be better. Since the screen is so large you will want the pano to be much larger as well. So I would think a viewer window size of at least 800 or 1000 would be needed. Otherwise the image will take up a small portion of the screen like you saw in my image I posted above. I would also make the image be centered on the screen so the extra screen width is even on both sides.

General Lee