Home Theater Forum - View Single Post - Progressive scan or HD player as interim player?

Stephen Tu · 04-02-2008, 05:52 PM

It's hard to see a scenario with a 720p native projector where 480i DVD -> 1080i -> 720p works out better than just feeding 480i/480p to the projector directly and letting the projector scale or using 720p out using the player's scaler.

Now for original 1080i content from a PVR, or original 1080p from HD-DVD, different factors would apply (deinterlacing 1080i can often be suboptimal), and indeed just outputting 1080i could be better.

I just don't think that for standard DVDs that this is likely. Do you really like 1080i better than all of 480i/480p/720p out for *standard DVDs*?

04-02-2008, 05:52 PM	#7 of 10
Stephen Tu Member Join Date: Apr 1999 Local Time: 05:09 AM Local Date: 10-13-2008 Posts: 1,049	Re: Progressive scan or HD player as interim player? It's hard to see a scenario with a 720p native projector where 480i DVD -> 1080i -> 720p works out better than just feeding 480i/480p to the projector directly and letting the projector scale or using 720p out using the player's scaler. Now for original 1080i content from a PVR, or original 1080p from HD-DVD, different factors would apply (deinterlacing 1080i can often be suboptimal), and indeed just outputting 1080i could be better. I just don't think that for standard DVDs that this is likely. Do you really like 1080i better than all of 480i/480p/720p out for standard DVDs?