Coverflow Scrollbars - bad resolution

When I use Coverflow in iTunes, the resolution of the horizontal scrollbar is in stark contrast to the clear, crisp resolution of everything else. Within the iTunes black area, the scrollbar looks blurry. When I use Coverflow in full screen mode, the playback controls and the full-screen button appear clear and crisp, but the scrollbar and the volume control bar appear very blurry.
With Apple now expanding the Coverflow mode to the Finder, I hope this issue gets fixed quickly - it's been around ever since Coverflow was introduced.

Yeah, pretty much everyone who has a Macbook has this problem. I went to the Apple store a few days ago, and I found out that this problem was ONLY native to the Macbook, which is shameful, because it's the most widely bought Apple computer. I hope it gets addressed quickly!
-Ian B.

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--| Some web based image hosting services provide uploaders that actually downsample an image.
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Hi Bill,
Thanks for the welcome.
I have only used HD Menu Sets.
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gardie10
19 mar 2012 kl. 15:35 skrev Bill Hunt:
Re: Very bad resolution in menus (templates)
created by Bill Hunt in Premiere Elements - View the full discussion
Did you use an HD Menu Set, or and SD Menu Set. As your AVCHD material is HD, you should use only an HD Menu Set.
I also assume that you chose the proper Preset at New Project, to match your footage 100%. Is that correct, or did you choose something else.
For the HD Project from that footage, you should be authoring a BD (Blu-ray Disc) and not a DVD, which is SD, and not HD, like the footage. Did you mean BD, when you typed "DVD?"
Good luck, and welcome to the forum.
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I am not a Mac user, but your problem is the same with other HDPI high resolution displays.
See that discussion on the feedback forum:
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Just purchased a brand new MBP, and all programs look awesome on it except the one software program where crisp display is required - PSE11.
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If you compare side by side HDPi vs more standard displays, you won't see the difference in a normal editing session, only if you look closely for a long time at a still image.
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what i see on the scope is far from a million points plotted. where the points are concentrated it is just solid white. I know the scope is recorded a million points because i've exported the data and analyzed elsewhere but the issue isn't data analysis, the people i'm working on this for need to be able to view the scope image and determine whether it is a good signal (by eye).
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[email protected]

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