gavan
Prominent Member
Oakleyspatz said:I also have to disagree with this comment. A few years ago then maybe scaling 1080i/p to 720 would have resulted in a worse image than upscaling 576p to 720p but nowadays, the quality of scalers have improved considerably in even budget displays ( The £1200 H72i has a top Faroudja DCDi inside) and any half decent scaler will produce a much better image down scaling 1080 lines to 720 than upscaling 480 or 576 lines to 720.
For example, SkyHD looks much better when outputting 1080i to my 720p projector than outputting 720p from the HD box !! I can only assume it is because the scaler in my PJ is better than the scaler in the SKYHD box as all SkyHD transmissions are currently in 1080i
Go figure!
Apparently a lot of the popular, cheaper 720/768 panel sets treat 1080i as 540p when doing their 'deinterlacing' and scaling.
Until mass-market sets start handling this conversion better, it's likely that a lot of the potential of HD will be lost for viewers. Alternatively, the player manufacturers could work on doing a really good 720p conversion in the player, bypassing the set's scaler/deinterlacer.
Gav