[Adamantium.]

pdp5000ex?


touche!

nice one grants. good to see another forum member with great taste in tvs.

I was about to buy one then decided I didn't want to be the first to buy into a new technology.

I think by 8th gen all plasmas will be 1080p.

I had to have something in the meantime so bought a 507xd for pennies instead.

Interesting about the pre production bd player, my friends on the inside at pioneer haven't even seen that yet.

As for the guy asking the question. Try to stave off buying a plasma until the end of the year when the 8th gen comes out. As I said, likely they will be 1080p.

LCD still lags way behind plasma imho. Just put two next to eachother.

Also ask yourself how much 1080p content there is. Not much right now, and certainly not for a good while. you had survived with 520i or thereabouts for a long time and now you can readily get 720p, don't expect to see miraculous improvements again on the move to 1080p. If you have to have it get the LCD but I suspect you will be sacrificing the rest of the viewing experience just to say you have additional resolution.

 

[Adamantium.]

your tv is a 1080i tv, not a 1080p.

not sure if it is a 42 or a 50, but the likelihood is it has more than 720 vertical pixels.

in 720p the internal scaler will scale the signal coming in so that it refreshes 720p pf information to fill the screen and refreshes that same image each time.

on a 1080i tv, which you have, your upscaling dvd player will send out an image with 1080 vertical pixels to the screen but many of these will be created by the dvd player as a guess based on what is in the surrounding pixels. It has to do this because the source dvd does not have that kind of resolution.

your tv is 1080i meaning it cannot process and display a complete 1080 image and refresh it every frame, so it will refresh odd lines then even lines on successive frames.

on 720 it refreshes the entire image every frame, but it is smaller.

even a 720p image will not be genuine source material unless you are watching a hi def disk on a bd or an hd dvd player, which I suspect you are not.

the quality of the images you see will depend on the quality of the upscaling, and the speed of the vido you are watching. If it is a still image and the scaler is a good one, then 1080i will be better. If you are watching fast moving action such as sports, then i would rather have a 720p signal and display.


If I have this wrong, someone please feel free to correct me, always keen to learn.

 

[Adamantium.]

grants,

any reviews for us on the bd player?