Ok, I know this may sound ludicrous to you, but I am dealing with parents which should explain alot.
I stopped over their house yesterday and brought over my extra HD-A3 and Transformers which they had not seen yet. They have a Toshiba 62" 16:9 RPTV which they told me was 1080i, and I have always assumed this was true. They have this weird "netcommand" feature so I had to program their HDMI input which it calls "M-Link". After scanning through their manual, I decided to check their specs. Low and behold it is a 1280x720 DLP chip. I tell mention to them that their set is actually 720p and not 1080i and that it is emulating 1080i... then I had to back track and try and give them an explanation why 720p is better than 1080i.
My mother felt like I was insulting her saying that theirs was 720p (as it was a lower number).
I showed her back and forth how it looked between the two and that her Cable box was taking the 720p signal, breaking down to 1080i sending it to the TV, and then reconverting it to 720p OR taking 1080i, sending it and converting it to 720p. Then I had to try and explain why some stations broadcast at 720 like Fox, ESPN, Disney and others like NBC do 1080i.... and then reexplain that she wasn't really getting true 1080i anyway.
My dad understood and agreed that setting it to 720p did look better, but she insisted the that it didn't (on 720p stations) and that her TV was "HD" and not only 720p
:confu sed:
Has anyone had that happen? Anyone find folks who feel 1080i look better over 720p. I could understand if the source (cable box) was a better upconverter than the TV and that......... but you are taking 720p source materials and converting them two times and 1080i converting once as opposed to no 720p converstion, 1080i conversion once.
I have my own setup at home (92" FP 720p) and understand all the basics but it is just frustrating.
I stopped over their house yesterday and brought over my extra HD-A3 and Transformers which they had not seen yet. They have a Toshiba 62" 16:9 RPTV which they told me was 1080i, and I have always assumed this was true. They have this weird "netcommand" feature so I had to program their HDMI input which it calls "M-Link". After scanning through their manual, I decided to check their specs. Low and behold it is a 1280x720 DLP chip. I tell mention to them that their set is actually 720p and not 1080i and that it is emulating 1080i... then I had to back track and try and give them an explanation why 720p is better than 1080i.
My mother felt like I was insulting her saying that theirs was 720p (as it was a lower number).
I showed her back and forth how it looked between the two and that her Cable box was taking the 720p signal, breaking down to 1080i sending it to the TV, and then reconverting it to 720p OR taking 1080i, sending it and converting it to 720p. Then I had to try and explain why some stations broadcast at 720 like Fox, ESPN, Disney and others like NBC do 1080i.... and then reexplain that she wasn't really getting true 1080i anyway.
My dad understood and agreed that setting it to 720p did look better, but she insisted the that it didn't (on 720p stations) and that her TV was "HD" and not only 720p
:confu sed:Has anyone had that happen? Anyone find folks who feel 1080i look better over 720p. I could understand if the source (cable box) was a better upconverter than the TV and that......... but you are taking 720p source materials and converting them two times and 1080i converting once as opposed to no 720p converstion, 1080i conversion once.
I have my own setup at home (92" FP 720p) and understand all the basics but it is just frustrating.
