Should I get a HD-DVD player or wait ? (1 Viewer)

[Peter-PP]

Definitely get one, especially with the great price drop and if you want to watch/own exclusive HD DVDs from Universal, Paramount, Dreamworks, Wienstein.

 

[Gary Seven]

Because the offer specifically states that it cannot be combined with any other Toshiba offer. Perhpas I'll try after I receive the remote in the mail.

 

[Sami Kallio]

What's the problem with XBox sending 1080i? Does it not do it correctly? Correct 1080i signal to 1080p display is practically the same as 1080p signal to 1080p TV.

Sorry if that's OT but I just wanted to know if the XBox sends the 1080i differently over component from the 1080i HD-DVD players with HDMI or component. In any case it should be much better than 720p to 1080p display.

 

[Gary Seven]

My TV only accepts 1080p using HDMI only. My Xbox is one of the older ones where it only outputs component (it also outputs VGA which my TV can use but I didn't want to go that route. VGA would give me 1080p). On a 60" TV, 1080p does look better than 1080i. This really was a marginal issue with me. However, watching a movie with a Xbox was not as the fan is really noisy and takes me out of the movie during fairly quiet scenes. I just finally had it with the noise, and with the recent price drops, felt it was a low risk to buy a player now. I would have waited for fall if I knew there was something substantially better coming out but that info is apparently unknown so I just went for it.

As far as the Xbox delivering the signal any differently... no it performs as it should.

 

[Sami Kallio]

With what have you tested this? I still don't see 1080i being worse than having to downscale to 720p. The difference between 1080i signal and 1080p signal should be very minimal, producing almost identical picture when deinterlaced. They both (1080i60 and 1080p60) contain the same amount of meaningful data when talking about 1080p24 film material.

Anyways, this is not your biggest issue so it's moot.

 

[Kevin C Brown]

I do not agree. It is certainly nontrivial to properly deinterlace SD DVD 480i to 480p. 1080i to 1080p is no different.

 

[Sami Kallio]

Someone has to do it, unless you have a player that outputs 1080p24 and a TV that accepts 1080p24. Even then the TV needs to convert it to 1080p60.

Home Theater: 1080i v. 1080p

Even if there are errors in the deinterlacing process, it certainly is better than scaling down to 720p and then scaling up to 1080p as you will lose information. Not to beat the subject, it's been discussed enough but just pointing out to the OP that downscaling to 720p is definitely not the way to go over 1080i signal.