TheBigFatJ on 30 August 2007
| whatever said: Below is Evan Powell's (Projector Central) appraisal of the 1080i vs 1080p controversy. "The truth is this: The Toshiba HD-DVD player outputs 1080i, and the Samsung Blu-ray player outputs both 1080i and 1080p. What they fail to mention is that it makes absolutely no difference which transmission format you use—feeding 1080i or 1080p into your projector or HDTV will give you the exact same picture. Why? Both disc formats encode film material in progressive scan 1080p at 24 frames per second. It does not matter whether you output this data in 1080i or 1080p since all 1080 lines of information on the disc are fed into your video display either way. The only difference is the order in which they are transmitted. If they are fed in progressive order (1080p), the video display will process them in that order. If they are fed in interlaced format (1080i), the video display simply reassembles them into their original progressive scan order. Either way all 1080 lines per frame that are on the disc make it into the projector or TV. The fact is, if you happen to have the Samsung Blu-ray player and a video display that takes both 1080i and 1080p, you can switch the player back and forth between 1080i and 1080p output and see absolutely no difference in the picture. So this notion that the Blu-ray player is worth more money due to 1080p output is nonsense." |
People who believe 1080p makes movies better are just smart enough to be dangerous. They know some of the difference between interlaced and progressive scan, but they don't get into the details of what is actually going on with the player, how things are actually encoded, etc.
I like HD DVD because the prices are a lot more consumer friendly, the standard is solid and has been around longer (the BD standard has changed) and you can get more than enough HD movie into 35GB, especially using advanced codecs that we haven't been seeing on BDs regardless of the standard's inclusion of them.
