Reduced Resolution JPEG files for Web, Email and TV

When we scan your photos, we typically scan at 2000 dpi or higher. The resulting files are great for printing and archiving but cumbersome for email, showing on the web, or using in a JPEG compatible DVD player for slideshows on your TV.  A 35mm slide scanned at 2000 dpi results in a 16MB uncompressed file.  Although the image will compress to around 3MB as a JPEG file, in order to view it, it must first be uncompressed back to its 16MB size.  That means your computer or DVD player has work with that much data before it can display the image and it will also have to reduce the image down to fit the display size. 

Most computer monitors are set to a resolution no greater than 1024x768.
TVs can only display 720x480 pixels. 
HDTV can display up to 1920x1080 pixels.

Note:
To see 1920x1080 HDTV, you need both an HDTV of that resolution and an HD-DVD player device that supports that resolution.  At the beginning of 2007, there were only a few such HD-DVD players available costing more than $1000 each.

Our reduced resolution disk will contain images that set to a width no greater than 1280 and a height no greater than 1024.  This saves your computer or DVD player from having to do the reduction each time it displays your photo and reduces the amount of time it takes to show the image on your monitor or TV.  It also makes the image files quite small by comparison so they are easy to email and load to a website.

When making prints, however, you should use your full resolution images.