Hi all.
I apologise if this has been asked before (I did some searches, but gave up having read through several dozen threads that came close, but not quite) but I have a bit of a newbie question in relation to plasma resolutions.
I have a good technical aptitude and have done a fair amount of research in to HD tv (by no means an expert though) so I have an idea of the concepts involved in order to prepare myself for my first HD purchase soon.
My question on resolutions covers that age-old 720i/p /1080i/p question but from a slightly different (I think) angle. I'll base my understandings on the model I have researched the most, the TH-42PX600B.
I know that the resolution of that tv is 1024x768. My question is, what happens if you put a 1080i/p source through this TV such as the soon to be released HD-DVD and Blu-ray players along with Sky HD and xbox 360? Will all 1080 signals be downsampled to 720 on that TV? If so, are there tv's around in the same bracket as the TH-42PX600B that do 1080i? By my understaning you will need something like the TH-50PF9BK to get 1080p, but that's a little out of my reach.
Essentially to cut a long story short, what happens when you display a 1080i signal to a 1024x768 panel?
I hope that makes sense.
Thanks
Brett.
I apologise if this has been asked before (I did some searches, but gave up having read through several dozen threads that came close, but not quite) but I have a bit of a newbie question in relation to plasma resolutions.
I have a good technical aptitude and have done a fair amount of research in to HD tv (by no means an expert though) so I have an idea of the concepts involved in order to prepare myself for my first HD purchase soon.
My question on resolutions covers that age-old 720i/p /1080i/p question but from a slightly different (I think) angle. I'll base my understandings on the model I have researched the most, the TH-42PX600B.
I know that the resolution of that tv is 1024x768. My question is, what happens if you put a 1080i/p source through this TV such as the soon to be released HD-DVD and Blu-ray players along with Sky HD and xbox 360? Will all 1080 signals be downsampled to 720 on that TV? If so, are there tv's around in the same bracket as the TH-42PX600B that do 1080i? By my understaning you will need something like the TH-50PF9BK to get 1080p, but that's a little out of my reach.
Essentially to cut a long story short, what happens when you display a 1080i signal to a 1024x768 panel?
I hope that makes sense.
Thanks
Brett.