Hey I just wanted to chime in on here and see if anyone else wants sony to add 480i output for hdmi, so we who have better scalers in our tv can take full advantage of them for dvd's. Anyone else want this?

Alot of displays don't support 480i over HDMI and the PS3 has been determined to have one the best DVD upscalers.

Alot of displays don't support 480i over HDMI and the PS3 has been determined to have one the best DVD upscalers.

Let's see if the idiots from the 1080i-only bashing crowd apply their retarded logic here....

What kind of TV do you have that scales 480i to HD better than the PS3?

No, I don't think the majority of us are going to use what ports we have available to upscale the PS3. But heck why not, maybe they could make it an option.

I would love this option as my projector (Benq w500) has the Reon chip which is supposed to be a better scaler.

I'm not for sure, but I would suppose my pioneer PDP5080 plasma has a better scaler then in my PS3.

I'm not for sure, but I would suppose my pioneer PDP5080 plasma has a better scaler then in my PS3.

Have you tested this? Because most TV scalers are usually good at best and I've seen the PS3's upscaling abilities in action and I'm pretty impressed. Very good work smoothing out jaggies and not a lot of artifacting.

Yes, I want the feature.

The PS3 is now pretty good, but if you have something better, it would be really nice to be able to take advantage of it.

Alot of displays don't support 480i over HDMI and the PS3 has been determined to have one the best DVD upscalers.

Not all TV's accept 1080p either, so does that mean the PS3 shouldn't support it?

Not all TV's accept 1080p either, so does that mean the PS3 shouldn't support it?

I never said that they shouldn't add it of that it wouldn't make sense, I was just saying that because it may be a reason why they haven't added it yet. I wasn't trying to be negative.

To get 480i, I just connect a Component set of cables from my PS3 to anther input channel on my SXRD XBR2. I go HDMI for almost everything else, and just internally switch the output from the XMB.

To get 480i, I just connect a Component set of cables from my PS3 to anther input channel on my SXRD XBR2. I go HDMI for almost everything else, and just internally switch the output from the XMB.

The idea is to improve the picture, not make it worse by doing unnecessary D/A and A/D conversions.

Hopefully they'll add this ability in one of the upcoming updates.