Watching video from the pc on a HD TV, will it look ok?

[Yucca]

Hi all

OK just a quick question. I have loads of videos on my hard drive, in all different formats divx, avi, etc etc

I normally watch all this stuff using vlc on my 20.1" dell monitor and everything looks fine. Obviously some videos look better than others.

Now my question, if i build an under the TV computer, ie and use it with a nice big 32" Samsung HD and want to watch all the same video media will it look the same as it does on my TFT or worse because its bigger and a HDTV?

When i watch terrestrial TV on my mates big HD TV as apposed to my old real projection it looks terrible. I assume, correct my if i am wrong, this is because the big HD TV is way better than my rear projection and picks up all the imperfections and so looks worse. If my thinking is correct then surly the same would apply to my video files?

Thanks

 

[Yucca]

That said, plus the greater diagonal screen size, the per-pixel size is greater, meaning videos would look worse than on a higher resolution and smaller screen.

See this is what i thought. My TFT is smaller and higher resolution so a 350 meg avi file looks pretty good. If you show the same video on a 32" surly the same amount of information stretched on a bigger tv will look worse?

 

[Yucca]

So as long as im sitting well away from it then it'l be fine?