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Anyone got any more inside information. Expected to be around the £245-£300 mark. Out mid June. Will this unit be compatible with my Sony 40V2500 which supports a video input of 1080i (not P). This one upscales to P (as above), will this cause problems with my TV ie. picture quality.
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HDMI does not improve picture quality and you are already watching an upscaled picture, as all HD Ready TV's must upscale or otherwise you would have a tiny picture in the middle of the screen.
The more pleasing picture will likely come from outputting 576i for your own recorded programs and 576p when watching commercial film DVDs that are progressive. This means your TV does all the necessary picture processing in one go at the same time so is cleaner and introduces less artefacts. You can do this easily with component cables and HDMI is nothing more than a marketing gimmick. Just so you are not disappointed
So yes it will be compatible, just don't bother using the upscaling.
Regards
Phil