Airplay resolution, Apple Tv 3, iPad 3

Photos look less detailed when watched via Airplay from the new iPad compared to streaming from computer. At least when airplaying from the default Photos app. It looks as if the photos are scaled down to 720p. I would have thought airplaying photos is 1080p?
Thoughts?

jupasa wrote:
When Atv is set to 720p, there is no difference between the photos. The difference is there only when Atv is set to 1080p. So it really looks like Airplay is scaling the photos to 720p. Maybe Airplay is 1080p only with video, not photos?
Unfortunately Apple never post these kind of specs about devices so we don't really know what happens.
If you can't see any difference your idea sounds plausible.
I do know that the original ATV1 used to resize/recompress photos to be smaller when synced to the unit (which had a hard drive), and we had deabtes about what quality these were being output at - ATV1 could handle from 480 i/p to 1080i/p for screen display for menus and perhaps photos/screensaver but for video playback it could not actually decode more than 720p at 24/25 fps even if set to output 1080p, it would internally scale the video to that. When testing photos I had manually resized for various theoretical output resolutions I could not really see much difference between the synced 1080p suitable and 720p suitable image in terms of resolution.

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