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Set HD-A1 to 480p for my 1080p display with DVD movies or not??

post #1 of 4
2/29/08 at 11:11am
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I know this has likely been covered before (likely a year or so ago), but I cannot find the answer.

I just bought a Samsung HL-T5676s yesterday (1080p DLP). For standard DVD veiwing, would it be better to let my A1 upconvert to 1080i (as I did with my older 1080i display), or should I set it to 480p and let TV's scaler handle conversion.

If A1 did 1080p I would just use that, but it doesn't.

So,with standard DVD and A1 set to 1080i you'll be upconverting a 480p source to 1080i then having the TV deinterlace that and output 1080p.

If you pass DVD material at 480p, then the TV would only upconvert once to 1080p. Anyone know if this yields better results?
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post #2 of 4
2/29/08 at 11:44am
You should let the A1 handle the conversion. In my experience, it does a much better job than the Sammy (I have a Sammy DLP also). Plus, the tv will not be doing any scaling, just simple deinterlacing of the 1080i signal to 1080p, which Sammy's do pretty well.
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post #3 of 4
2/29/08 at 12:21pm
This is hit or miss....

In all honesty if you want to make sure your getting absolute best performance, you should try 480i even.

I'd rank the A1 as in the top tier of scaling SD-DVD players though, so I'd let it convert to 1080i and call it good.
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post #4 of 4
2/29/08 at 2:57pm
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Sounds good. Thanks guys.
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